COM SCI 263A
Language and Thought
Computer Science · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to natural language processing (NLP), with emphasis on semantics. Presentation of process models for variety of tasks, including question answering, paraphrasing, machine translation, word-sense disambiguation, narrative and editorial comprehension. Examination of both symbolic and statistical approaches to language processing and acquisition.
Letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 130 or 131 or 161.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
COM SCI 263A
- COM SCI 130Software Engineering
- COM SCI 111Operating Systems Principles
- COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science II
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
COM SCI 263A
- COM SCI 265AMachine Learning
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.





