Computational methods for syntactic and semantic analysis of structures representing meanings of natural language; study of current natural language processing systems; methods for computing outlines and discourse structures of descriptive text. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Only one of the following may be counted: Artificial Intelligence 388, Computer Science 388, Data Science 388, 395T (topic: Natural Language Processing) Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and a course in artificial intelligence or consent of instructor.