COM SCI 263A · CS 263ALanguage 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.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 130 or 131 or 161.
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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
- ENGR 183EWEngineering and Society
- ENGR 185EWArt of Engineering Endeavors
- COM SCI 131Programming Languages
- COM SCI 33Introduction to Computer Organization
- COM SCI 35LSoftware Construction
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- COM SCI 161Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
- COM SCI 180Introduction to Algorithms and Complexity
3 direct requisites. Showing 24 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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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.