CS 6742

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  • Schedule of Classes - September 7, 2025 7:07PM EDT

CS 6742
Natural Language Processing and Social Interaction

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

More and more of life is now manifested online, and many of the digital traces that are left by human activity are increasingly recorded in natural-language format. This research-oriented course examines the opportunities for natural language processing to contribute to the analysis and facilitation of socially embedded processes. Possible topics include sentiment analysis, learning social-network structure, analysis of text in political or legal domains, review aggregation systems, analysis of online conversations, and text categorization with respect to psychological categories.


Prerequisites CS 3110 or equivalent programming experience, a course in artificial intelligence or any relevant subfield (e.g., NLP, information retrieval, machine learning).

Enrollment Information Enrollment limited to: Ph.D. and MS students.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 2024FA, 2024SP, 2022FA

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: INFO 6742

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  9237 CS 6742   LEC 001

  •  
    • T
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: INFO 6742

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 21315 CS 6742   LEC 030

  •  
    • T
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, C

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Synchronous