CS 691/791: Natural Language Processing Spring 2007 Instructor: V. Juggy Jagannathan Office Hours: By appointment via email: juggy[at]csee[dot]wvu[dot]edu Or by calling: 304-296-7550 x 101

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Overview The primary objective of this course is to provide an overview of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. NLP has a rich history in computer science and is at the intersection of pattern recognition, speech recognition, artificial intelligence and semantic understanding. NLP is seeing wide spread usage and applicability. From information retrieval tasks that Google has brought to a world audience to terrorism surveillance of internet chat rooms, NLP techniques have a broad array of uses. In healthcare, the use of NLP is just beginning to take roots and there are innumerable applications that can take advantage of this evolving and rapidly maturing technology. Course Book:  Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing By: Christopher D. Manning And Hinrich Schutze Course Book Link: http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/