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<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Washington</strong><br />
Ling472 Introduction to Computational Linguistics<br />
Lecture 1:<br />
Introduction<br />
What is Computational Linguistics?<br />
Applying quantitative techniques to the analysis and<br />
processing <strong>of</strong> human (“natural”) languages.<br />
• Naturally, computers are well‐suited to this sort <strong>of</strong> Natural<br />
Language Processing (NLP)<br />
• Cross‐disciplinary<br />
– Linguistics<br />
– Computer science<br />
– Mathematics<br />
– Electrical Engineering<br />
• Computational linguists come from all <strong>of</strong> these<br />
backgrounds<br />
Monday, April 1, 2013<br />
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