IT 558: Natural Language Processing for Arabic Language

The course covers the fundamentals of natural language processing (NLP) with an emphasis on Arabic. It includes foundational NLP concepts and ideas, such as regular expressions, n-gram models, part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, and semantic representations (including word embeddings).

The course will cover an understanding of various NLP applications such as sentiment analysis, information retrieval, summarization and machine translation. The course will also introduce cutting-edge research progress in NLP, including multilingual, cross-lingual methods and state of the art techniques for effectively modeling human language.