LING 345 — From Natural Language to Data Science

Introduction to language data science, including theoretical approaches and practical skills. Processing, searching, and querying text data; making sense of large corpora; modelling and interpreting psycholinguistic and historical language data; building models of sequences of words; computing similarity between languages; information retrieval and extraction; question answering; and ethics.

• Credits: 3
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Department: Linguistics
• Prerequisites: COMP 250 and MATH 133; or permission of the instructor.