Intellectual history of computational linguistics, natural language processing, and speech recognition, using primary sources. Reading of seminal early papers, interviews with early pioneers, with the goal of understanding the origins and intellectual development of the field. Prerequisites: (strictly required) completion of a Stanford graduate NLP course (CS 224C/N/U/S, CS 329X, CS 384).
3-4 units · Letter (ABCD/NP)
Intellectual history of computational linguistics, natural language processing, and speech recognition, using primary sources. Reading of seminal early papers, interviews with early pioneers, with the goal of understanding the origins and intellectual development of the field. Prerequisites: (strictly required) completion of a Stanford graduate NLP course (CS 224C/N/U/S, 329X, 384).
Offered in Winter 2027 at Stanford University.