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overview of natural language processing in Japanese and English, processing of text, natural language processing based on linguistics, analysis of morpheme, larger linguistic units, statistical processing & applications such as information retrieval and extraction, summarization, machine translation, and search inquiry

introduction to psycholinguistics, basic units of language, neuropsychology of language, language development/acquisition, non-human language

central topics in language processing, structure of language, sentence, discourse, morphological processing, storage & access of words in mental dictionary, speech processing, relationship between computational resources available in working memory & language processing mechanism, ambiguity resolution, computational & connectionist models, language & thought, issues in language acquisition, critical period phenomena, acquisition of speech & words, experimental methodologies: readings, course download

important results and ideas of the last half century of research in syntax, related work in language acquisition and processing, ideas and arguments for these ideas in addition to the the details of particular analyses, mechanics of one particular approach (sometimes called Principles and Parameters syntax): readings, course download

grammar of Japanese and its structure, emphasis on problems of interest in the study of linguistic universals, Data from a broad group of languages studied for comparison with Japanese, assumes familiarity with linguistic theory: related resources, course download, readings

theoretical issues & models of NLG, engineering issues that are important when building a system, some NLG systems: overview, input and output to NLG systems, functional perspective, process perspective, domain modeling, content determination, rhetorical structuring, implementation, macroplanner architectures, linguistic specification, lexicalization, aggregation, referring expressions, realization, beyond NLG, further reading

German (grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary)

modern standard Chinese, commonly called Mandarin, presupposes no prior background in the language, develops basic conversational abilities (pronunciation, fundamental grammatical patterns, common vocabulary, and standard usage), reading and writing skills (in both the traditional character set and the simplified), understanding of the language learning process, downloadable textbook in readings section, several different types of study materials