Lecture Notes and Assigned Readings
| Date | Lecture Topic and Handouts |
Readings |
Assignments |
| Tues 1/25 | Introduction to the field (.pdf) | Jurafsky & Martin (J&M), chapter 1 | |
| Thurs 1/27 | Lexical Semantics (.pdf) | J&M: 19.1-19.3 | |
| Tues 2/2 | Word-sense disambiguation I: dictionary-based approaches; introduction to machine learning (.pdf) | J&M: 20.1; 20.4 | |
| Thurs 2/4 | Word-sense disambiguation II: supervised machine learning methods; evaluation (.pdf) | J&M:20.2-20.3 | Critique 1: due
Burstein, J., Chodorow, M., and Leacock, C. |
| Tues 2/9 | WSD: bootstrapping and unsupervised learning (.pdf) | J&M:20.5; 20.10 | |
| Thurs 2/11 | Part-of-speech tagging: introduction (.pdf) | J&M:5-5.1 | |
| Tues 2/16 | ML basics
(.pdf) WEKA demo |
Weds, 2/17: WSD project, Part I due. See CMS. | |
| Thurs 2/18 | Part-of-speech tagging: transformation-based learning (.pdf) | J&M:5.2-5.4 | |
| Tues 2/23 | Introduction to language modelling (.pdf) | J&M:4-4.1 | |
| Thurs 2/25 | N-gram models (.pdf) | J&M:4.2-4.3 | Fri 2/26, WSD project due: See CMS. Mon 3/1, Critique 2 due: See CMS. |
| Tues 3/2 | Smoothing (.pdf) | ||
| Thurs 3/4 | Smoothing: Take II
(.pdf) Interpolation and backoff (.pdf) |
J&M:4.5 | |
| Tues 3/9 | HMMs for part-of-speech tagging (.pdf); Viterbi algorithm example (.pdf) | J&M:5.5 | |
| Thurs 3/11 | Project 2 group meetings | ||
| Tues 3/16 | Class canceled: Claire sick | ||
| Thurs 3/18 | Sentiment analysis: document-level (.pdf) | Fri 3/19: Language Modeling project: part 1 due. | |
| Tues 3/23 Thurs 3/25 |
Spring Break | ||
| Tues 3/30 | Sentiment analysis: extensions Guest lecturer: Myle Ott |
Weds 3/31: Language Modeling project: code and report due. | |
| Thurs 4/01 | Information extraction: introduction (.pdf) | ||
| Tues 4/06 | Information extraction: pattern learning (.pdf) | J&M: 22.0, 22.2, 22.4 | |
| Tues 4/08 | Named entity detection (.pdf) | J&M: | |
| Tues 4/13 | Group meetings: sequence tagging project | ||
| Thurs 4/15 | Sequence tagging via MEMMs Opinion extraction via ILP (.pdf) |
J&M: 6 | Fri 4/16: Sequence tagging project, Part I due. |
| Tues 4/20 | Parsing introduction (.pdf) | J&M: chapter 12 (background) 13-13.1 |
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| Thurs 4/22 | Bottom-up chart parsing
(.pdf) Example (.pdf) |
J&M: 13-13.4 | Fri 4/23: Sequence tagging project, Report due. |
| Tues 4/27 | Earley algorithm
(.pdf);
example (.pdf) PCFG's () |