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SYMSYS 195U

Natural Language Understanding (CS 224U, LINGUIST 188, LINGUIST 288)

UNITS:3-4
GRADING:Letter or Credit/No Credit
LEVEL:Undergrad
GER:—

Project-oriented class focused on developing systems and algorithms for robust machine understanding of human language. Draws on theoretical concepts from linguistics, natural language processing, and machine learning. Topics include lexical semantics, distributed representations of meaning, relation extraction, semantic parsing, sentiment analysis, and dialogue agents, with special lectures on developing projects, presenting research results, and making connections with industry. Prerequisites: CS 224N or CS 224S (This is a smaller number of courses than previously.)

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SYMSYS 195U: Natural Language Understanding (CS 224U, LINGUIST 188, LINGUIST 288)

3-4 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit

Project-oriented class focused on developing systems and algorithms for robust machine understanding of human language. Draws on theoretical concepts from linguistics, natural language processing, and machine learning. Topics include lexical semantics, distributed representations of meaning, relation extraction, semantic parsing, sentiment analysis, and dialogue agents, with special lectures on developing projects, presenting research results, and making connections with industry. Prerequisites: CS 224N or CS 224S (This is a smaller number of courses than previously.)

Offered in Spring 2027 at Stanford University.

Spring 2027 sections

  • Lecture — TBA TBA (Undergrad)
  • Discussion — TBA TBA (Undergrad)

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