Lecture Notes and Assigned Readings
| Date | Lecture Topic and Handouts |
Readings |
Assignments |
| Thur 8/24 | Introduction (.pdf) | Jurafsky & Martin (J&M), chapter 1 | |
| Tue 8/29 | Lexical semantics (.pdf) | J&M: 16.1; 16.2; 16.4 | |
| Thur 8/31 | Word sense disambiguation I (.pdf) | ||
| Tue 9/5 | Word sense
disambiguation II: supervised learning methods (.pdf) |
J&M: 17.1-17.2. For a description of the relevant background material on probability theory, see Manning and Schuetze 2.1.1-2.1.3 |
Paper critique due. |
| Thur 9/7 | WSD evaluations (.pdf) | ||
| Tue 9/12 | SENSEVAL and Intro to the noisy channel model (.pdf) | ||
| Thur 9/14 | Pronunciation variation via the noisy channel model (.pdf) | J&M, Chapter 5.1-5.8 | |
| Tue 9/19 | Introduction to Language Modeling (.pdf) | J&M, Chapter 6.1-6.2 | |
| Thur 9/21 | n-gram language models; part-of-speech tagging intro (.pdf) | J&M, Chapter 8.1-8.4, 8.6 | |
| Tue 9/26 | HMM's for POS tagging (.pdf) | J&M, Chapter 8.5-8.8. The Viterbi algorithm is explained in Chapter 7. | Paper critique due. |
| Thur 9/28 | |||
| Tue 10/3 | Smoothing (.pdf) | J&M, Chapter 6.3-6.6 | WSD assignment due. |
| Thur 10/5 | |||
| Tue 10/10 |
Fall Break (no class) |
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| Thur 10/12 | Introduction to Parsing (.pdf) | J&M, Chapter 9 | |
| Tue 10/17 | Parsing algorithms (.pdf) | J&M, Chapter 10 | Paper critique due. |
| Thur 10/19 | Chart parsing example (.pdf) | ||
| Tue 10/24 | |||
| Thur 10/26 | Partial parsing (.pdf) | POS tagging mini deadline. | |
| Tue 10/31 | midterm de-briefing | ||
| Thur 11/2 |
The Earley Algorithm;
Intro to Probabilistic Parsing (.pdf) Earley algorithm example (.pdf) |
POS tagging assignment due. | |
| Tue 11/7 | Parsing with PCFG’s (.pdf) and Intro to Question Answering (.pdf) |
J&M, Chapter 12. The TREC Question Answering Track, Ellen Voorhees. Natural Language Engineering 1:1. 2001. |
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| Thur 11/9 | Question Answering (.pdf) (pdf, part 2) | ||
| Tue 11/14 | |||
| Thur 11/16 | Reference Resolution (.pdf) | J&M, Chapter 18 | |
| Tue 11/21 |
Thanksgiving Break (no class) |
QA intermediate report due. | |
| Thur 11/24 |
Thanksgiving Break (no class) |
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| Tue 11/28 | Machine learning for reference resolution (no slides) | ||
| Thur 11/30 |
Pragmatics and the problem of inference (.pdf) |
QA final report due. [No late penalty through Monday, Dec 4, 11:59p.m.] | |
| Weds 12/6 |
Final Examination |