printer friendly pageLINGUIST 284A: Writing Systems in a Digital Age (LINGUIST 185)
Introduction to the variety of writing systems and their behaviors. Classification of all existing scripts as alphabetic, syllabic, ideographic; unifying and differentiating features within each group. How writing captures human language in various ways. The development of the alphabet, from ancient Semitic scripts to modern times. How writing systems are extended to additional languages. Chinese writing, its characteristics and sphere of influence. Japanese writing as a hybrid system that includes Chinese. Korean writing as an ideally designed script. The Indian system of writing as the foundation of numerous Asian syllabic scripts. Unicode as global standard for encoding text in all languages. Font technology: the emulation of human writing in the digital realm. nBasic knowledge of phonetics recommended. Knowledge of foreign languages helpful.
LINGUIST 289: Topics in Computational Linguistics: History of Computational Linguistics
Intellectual history of computational linguistics and natural language processing, together with related aspects of dialogue and speech processing, using primary sources. Reading of seminal early papers, interviews with historical figures, with the goal of understanding the origins and intellectual development of the field. Prerequisites: at least one of LING 180, 281, 283, 284, 286, or 288.
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