LIGN 266. Computational Pragmatics (4 units)
Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/LING.html#lign266
Description
This course will provide an introduction to computational models of pragmatics and their empirical evaluation. The course will mainly focus on probabilistic models, including the Rational Speech Acts model and its various extensions. Students will learn how to build probabilistically coherent models of agent behavior, and how to evaluate the linguistic accuracy of these models.
Prerequisite courses
LIGN 266 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have LIGN 266 as a prerequisite.