Lecture Notes and Assigned Readings
| Date | Lecture Topic and Handouts |
Readings |
Assignments |
| Thurs 1/23 | Introduction to the field and to the course | Jurafsky & Martin (J&M) chapter 1 |
|
| Tues 1/28 | Generative models of language | J&M 4-4.2 | |
| Thurs 1/30 |
|
||
| Tues 2/4 | Smoothing | J&M 4.3-4.5 | |
| Thurs 2/6 | J&M 4.6-4.8 | critique 1 due: WEDS 2/5 |
|
| Tues 2/11 | Lexical semantics | J&M 19-19.3 | |
| Thurs 2/13 | Word sense disambiguation | J&M 20-20.4 | |
| Tues 2/18 | NO CLASS - FEBRUARY BREAK | ||
| Thurs 2/20 | WSD evaluation (see slides from last class) |
J&M 20.5 | project part 1 due, WEDS 2/19 11:59pm |
| Tues 2/25 | NO CLASS |
project 1 (whole) due, WEDS 2/26 11:59pm | |
| Thurs 2/27 | WSD: bootstrapping methods | ||
| Tues 3/4 | POS tagging | J&M 5-5.3 | |
| Thurs 3/6 | HMMs for POS tagging | J&M 5.5, 5.7 | project 2 proposal due at class time (CMS and hardcopy) |
| Tues 3/11 | NE recognition | J&M 22-22.1 | critique 2 due: MON 3/10 |
| Thurs 3/13 | IN-CLASS PRELIM | ||
| Tues 3/18 | IN-CLASS GRADING | ||
| Thurs 3/20 | Information extraction introduction | J&M 22.2, 22.4 | project 2 due, WEDS 3/19 |
| Tues 3/25 | IE pattern learning | J&M 6.7-6.8 | |
| Thurs 3/27 | Opinion extraction | critique 3 due: WEDS 3/26 | |
| Tues 4/1 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| Thurs 4/3 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| Tues 4/8 | Grammars and parsing | J&M 12-12.3, 13-13.1 | |
| Thurs 4/10 | Bottom-up chart parser (example) | 13.2-13.4.1 | |
| Tues 4/15 | 13.4.2-13.5 | project 3 proposal due in class | |
| Thurs 4/17 | Probabilistic parsing | 14-14.5 | |
| Tues 4/22 | Discourse analysis Guest lecturer: Jon Park |
21-21.2 | |
| Thurs 4/24 | NP coreference resolution (part1, part2) | 21.3-21.4 | |
| Tues 4/29 | ML for coreference resolution | 21.7 | |
| Thurs 5/1 | project 3 due, WEDS 4/30 critique 4 due:MON 5/5 |