ITO5217 Natural language processing
Faculty of Information Technology
ITO5217 Natural language processing is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Information Technology. It isn't offered in 2021. It needs ITO5163, ITO5136 and ITO5047.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2021
- Not offered
This is the 2021 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ITO5217
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
Prerequisites
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Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After ITO5217
No unit lists ITO5217 as a prerequisite in the 2021 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Online
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Overview
Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important technologies of the information age. Understanding complex language utterances is also a crucial part of artificial intelligence. This unit introduces fundamentals of NLP. It covers techniques for the analysis of words, sentences, and documents as well as applications including information extraction, and question answering.
Offerings in 2021
The 2021 handbook lists no offerings for ITO5217.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
organise core problems and applications in NLP.
- 2
design systems to tackle NLP problems.
- 3
evaluate NLP systems.
- 4
assess various approaches to NLP.
Workload and teaching
- Teaching approachOnline learning
A minimum of 122 hours over the 6 week teaching period should be used to complete assignments, participating in discussions, private study and revision.