Computer Science 4750:
Introduction to Natural Language Processing
(Fall 2025)

Instructor	Office	Office Hours	Lectures
Todd Wareham harold@mun.ca	EN-2034 (709) 864-4601	TBA	TR, 9:00-10:15 am Room EN-1051

• Course outline
• Course diary
• Assignments

• Home pages for previous offerings of this course:
  • Fall 2024
  • Fall 2023
  • Fall 2022
  • Fall 2021
  • Fall 2018
  • Fall 2016
  • Fall 2014

• On-line resources:
  • NLTK: Natural Language Toolkit for Python
  • OpenFST: An open-source software library for manipulating weighted finite-state transducers
  • Markov Chains Explained Visually
  • Probabilistic Finite State Machines and Hidden Markov Models
• Recommended reading:
  • How to make cheese blintzes with fresh berries
  • BBC News: The greatest mistranslations ever
    
  • BBC News - Wife cake and evil water: The perils of auto-translation
  • BBC News - Would you want to talk to a machine?
  • BBC News - How English gave birth to surprising new languages
  • BBC News - The people who study the meaning of nonsense
  • BBC News - The language the government tried to suppress
  • TechCrunch - IBM and MIT partner up to create AI that understands sight and sound the way we do
  • BBC News - RBS, NatWest and SEB banks employ virtual staff
  • BBC News - OK, Google - who will win the AI wars?
  • BBC News - Are killer bots about to do away with smartphone apps?
  • BBC News - Amazon Alexa heard and sent private chat
  • BBC News - AI gives silenced radio journalist his voice back
  • BBC News - Will we stop speaking and just text?
  • BBC News - IBM's machine argues, pretty convincingly, with humans
  • BBC News - Google's robot caller in first public trial
  • BBC News - Scammers abuse multilingual domain names
  • BBC News - Babylon claims its chatbot beats GPs at medical exam
  • BBC News - Facebook finds Independence document 'racist'
  • BBC News - Facebook launches services for Inuit speakers
  • BBC News - Amazon Alexa: is it friends with your kids?
  • BBC News - Sign-language hack lets Amazon Alexa respond to gestures
  • BBC News - The commas that cost companies millions
  • BBC News - Google Translate serves up 'scummy Welsh' translations
  • BBC News - Why we hate using email but love sending texts
  • BBC News - The world's most prolific writer is a Chinese algorithm
  • BBC News - How translation apps are ironing out embarrassing gaffes
  • BBC News - The one writing skill you must master
  • BBC News - Smart speakers could be speaking Welsh
  • BBC News - The digital body language cues you send - or don't send
  • BBC News - Tech Tent: Can AI write a play?
  • BBC News - How our brains cope with speaking more than one language
  • BBC News - Your teen's being sarcastic? It's a sign of intelligence
  • GQ - Robots Say the Damnedest Things
  • Fun with Help-Line Chatbots
  • His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent
  • BBC News - Instagram sorry for adding 'terrorist' to some Palestinian user bios
  • BBC News - Could reading instruction manuals become a thing of the past?
  • BBC News - AI in healthcare: what are the risks for the NHS?
  • BBC News - Can AI therapists really be an alternative to human help?
  • BBC News - The people who think AI might become conscious
  • CNN News - Wife Says She's Worried ChatGPT Will Tell Her Husband to Leave Her One Day
  • CNN News - FDA's artificial intelligence is supposed to revolutionize drug approvals. It's making up studies
  • BBC News - Gaps in our knowledge of ancient Rome could be filled by AI
  • BBC News - 'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
  • BBC News - How to get AI to work in 22 languages
  • BBC News - Lost in translation - How Africa is trying to close the AI language gap
  • BBC News - MND left her without a voice. Eight seconds of scratchy audio gave it back to her
  • BBC News - AI firm says its technology weaponised by hackers
  • BBC News - Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis'
  • BBC News - Family of dead teen say ChatGPT's new parental controls not enough
  • CNN - The latest ChatGPT is supposed to be 'PhD level' smart. It can't even label a map
• Recommended viewing:
  • Rory vs. The Robot
  • BBC Reel: Can artificial intelligence ever be sentient?

Notices:

• September 5, 11:20am
  Assignment #1 posted.

• July 10, 10:55am
  Open for business!

Created: July 10, 2025
Last Modified: September 5, 2025