Background Information

As part of their first "milestone" (due dates by which students needed to have completed specific steps in the semester-long process of exploring the intersection of Linguistics and AI), students were tasked with familiarizing themselves with the core issues of computational linguistics and the general concepts (NLP, LLMs, MT) that they would be exploring over the coursses of the semester. We included the following videos among the list of resources shared with our students: 

The Language of Computational Linguistics | Walter Daelemans | TEDxAntwerp

A general overview of the current field of Computational Linguistics and and introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Practical AI for Instructors and Students | Lilach and Ethan Mollick | The Wharton School

An introduction to AI for teachers and students