LING 345. From Natural Language to Data Science .
Credits: 3
Offered by: Linguistics (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Introduction to language data science, including theoretical approaches and practical skills. Processing, searching, and querying text data; making sense of large corpora; modelling and interpreting psycholinguistic and historical language data; building models of sequences of words; computing similarity between languages; information retrieval and extraction; question answering; and ethics.
- Prerequisites: COMP 250 and MATH 133; or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 345.