AI 400 - Natural Language Processing

5 CR

Previously ROBAI 400.
This course offers a practical understanding of how human speech can be processed by computers and robots. Students build speech recognition, speech synthesis, and spoken dialog systems. Topics include algorithms, techniques, and limitations of state-of-the-art speech systems.

Prerequisite(s): ROBAI 240 or AI 240 and DEV 258 or DEV 258, and admission into the BAS Software Development Artificial Intelligence concentration, or permission of instructor.

Course Outcomes

Discuss the challenges, strategies and technologies that relate to speech and language recognition and processing
Present the different statistical methods in NLP, and discuss advantages, limitations and applications of the different approaches
Develop, build and test algorithms for natural language processing, linguistic analysis, and language generation
Design, build and test speech recognition, speech synthesis and spoken dialog systems
Discuss limitations of current speech and language technologies, and research and present emerging new approaches

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