CS 4740 Introduction to Natural Language Processsing

CS 4740 - Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Spring 2009

Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:55-4:10 Place: The classroom has changed from 205 Upson to 205 Thurston* Instructor: Professor Claire Cardie, 5161 Upson Hall Office hours: see top of Claire's home page TAs: Ainur Yessenalina (email: ainur@X, replace X with cs.cornell.edu) Yejin Choi (email: ychoi@X) Ainur (4156 Upson)'s office hours for week (April 22 - May 11): Mon 3:45pm - 4:45pm Tue 1:30pm - 2:30pm Wed 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Course Materials: Lecture Notes, Readings, Assignments Guidelines for writing critiques Examples (Based on a Mostow et al. 1996 paper) Art, Vera, Sofya, Sam, Jackie, Richard Course Management System (CMS): We'll be using the CS department course management system for submission of assignments, grading, etc. You can get to CMS via the above link. You'll need your Cornell netid and password. electronic submission instructions (specifically, page 5). Resources: Assignment 4 NER task Available through CMS. POS task Available through CMS. Links to packages: nltk
Course Description
	Computationally oriented introduction to natural language processing, the goal of which is to enable computers to use human languages as input, output, or both. Possible topics include parsing, grammar induction, information retrieval, and machine translation.
Possible Topics to be Covered

Reference Material

Grading
	25%: critiques of selected readings and research papers Guidelines for writing critiques 60%: programming assignments 13%: participation You'll be expected to participate in class discussion and class exercises or otherwise demonstrate an interest in the material studied in the course. 2%: course evaluations;
Academic Integrity
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