Computational Sociolinguistics credit: 3 or

4 Hours

Explores both computational models of social phenomena in language and the critical evaluation of computational models from a sociolinguistic perspective. Topics include linguistic variation and dialectology, language attitudes and perception, code-switching, low-resource languages and dialects, and sources of social bias in language models. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: LING 100 or LING 400 ; LING 402 or equivalent Python experience.