teaching

Special topics course introducing the essential concepts, principles, and techniques of natural language processing, with topics spanning information extraction, grammars, disambiguation, and system modeling, classification, and evaluation.

Covers the mathematics of discrete events, meaning events that involve distinct elements, finite structures of distinct elements, or finite sampled versions of continuous phenomena.

First part of a two-course sequence on the essential concepts, principles, and techniques of modern database systems, covering the modeling and querying of data with conceptual data models and the development of a database application.