COSC442-24S1 (C) Semester One 2024

Natural Language Processing

This occurrence is not offered in 2024 due to staff availability

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2024
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 May 2024

Description

This course introduces central problems and methods in natural language processing. Through their experiences in this course, students will be able to apply and evaluate standard methods to new sets of language data. The course will enable students to design an application of natural language processing for a NZ-specific context and evaluate the performance of that application against reasonable baselines.

Prerequisites

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
System Review 20% Compare and review approaches to a shared task
Supervised Model 25% Implement and describe a text classifier
Unsupervised Model 25% Implement and describe an unsupervised model
Final Project 30% Combine multiple core methods into a single task

Additional Course Outline Information

Grade moderation

The Computer Science department's grading policy states that in order to pass a course you must meet two requirements:
1. You must achieve an average grade of at least 50% over all assessment items.
2. You must achieve an average mark of at least 45% on invigilated assessment items.

If you satisfy both these criteria, your grade will be determined by the following University-wide scale for converting marks to grades: an average mark of 50% is sufficient for a C- grade, an average mark of 55% earns a C grade, 60% earns a C+ grade and so forth. However if you do not satisfy both the passing criteria you will be given either a D or E grade depending on marks. Marks are sometimes scaled to achieve consistency between courses from year to year.

Students may apply for special consideration if their performance in an assessment is affected by extenuating circumstances beyond their control.

Applications for special consideration should be submitted via the Examinations Office website within five days of the assessment.

Where an extension may be granted for an assessment, this will be decided by direct application to the Department and an application to the Examinations Office may not be required.

Special consideration is not available for items worth less than 10% of the course.

Students prevented by extenuating circumstances from completing the course after the final date for withdrawing, may apply for special consideration for late discontinuation of the course. Applications must be submitted to the Examinations Office within five days of the end of the main examination period for the semester.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,110.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Computer Science and Software Engineering .

All COSC442 Occurrences

  • COSC442-24S1 (C) Semester One 2024 - Not Offered due to staff availability