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LING 185AComputational Linguistics I

Linguistics · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Recommended: course 165B or 200B. Overview of formal computational ideas underlying kinds of grammars used in theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics, and some connections to applications in natural language processing. Topics include recursion, relationship between probabilities and grammars, and parsing algorithms.

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Requisites: courses 120B, Program in Computing 10C (or Computer Science 32).

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  • LING 120B
  • one of
    • COMPTNG 10C
    • COM SCI 32

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LING 185A

  • LING 120BSyntax I
    • LING 20Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
  • COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science II
    • COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
  • COMPTNG 10CAdvanced Programming
    • COMPTNG 10BIntermediate Programming
      • COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science Ianother path to it
      • COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming

3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 8 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

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LING 185A

  • LING 185BComputational Linguistics II
  • LING 185CComputational Semantics
  • LING 209CComputational Semantics

3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Summer 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.