Lecture Notes and Assigned Readings

Date Lecture Topic and Handouts

Readings

Assignments

Tues 1/24 Introduction to the field (slides) Jurafsky & Martin (J&M),
chapter 1
 
Thurs 1/26 Question answering systems: intro (slides) J&M 23.1-23.2  
Tues 1/31 QA system architecture (slides)   Critique 1 due: FRI 2/3
Thurs 2/2 Advanced QA techniques (slides)    
Tues 2/7 NO CLASS: Claire out of town
Thurs 2/9 Language modeling introduction (slides)
Tues 2/14 N-gram models (same slide set as last class) Language modeling project: available
Thurs 2/16 Smoothing; Unknown words (.pdf) J&M 4-4.3.2; 4.4-4.8 Critique 2 due: FRI 2/17
Tues 2/21 Backoff (slides from last class)
Lexical semantics (slides)
J&M 19-19.3 LM Project (Part 1) due
Thurs 2/23 Word-sense disambiguation - Intro (slides) J&M 20-20.1; 20.4  
Tues 2/28 Supervised ML (slides) J&M 20.2 Language modeling project: due
Thurs 3/1 Word-sense disambiguation:
supervised methods and evaluation (slides)
J&M 20.2-20.3 Project 2 (WSD): available
Tues 3/6 Word-sense disambiguation:
weakly supervised methods (slides from last class)
Part-of-speech tagging: intro (slides)
J&M 20.5;
Thurs 3/8 Hidden Markov Models for p-o-s tagging (slides) J&M 5.5, 5.8; 6-6.5 Critique 3: due
Tues 3/13 Named Entity Detection and MEMMs (slides) J&M 22-22.1 Project 2, Part 1 due: MON 3/12
Thurs 3/15 Sentiment/Opinion Analysis (slides) Choi et al. (EMNLP 2005)
Choi & Cardie (EMNLP, 2006)
Tues 3/20
Thurs 3/22
SPRING BREAK    
Tues 3/27 Information Extraction I J&M 22.2, 22.4
Thurs 3/29 Information Extraction II, MEMMs J&M 6.6-6.9 Project 2: due
Tues 4/03 Detecting Deceptive Opinion Spam (slides) Ott, Choi, Cardie & Hancock (ACL, 2011) Critique 4: due Monday, 4/2
Project 3 (Sequence Tagging): available
Thurs 4/05 Syntactic Analysis Intro (slides) J&M 12-12.3, 13-13.3  
Tues 4/10 Chart Parsing (slides,example) J&M 13.4 Project 3 (Part 1): due MON 4/9
Project 4 (QA): available
Thurs 4/12 Parsing with PCFGs (slides) J&M 14-14.3
Tues 4/17 Project 3 team meetings Project 3: due
Thurs 4/19 Parsing with Lexicalized PCFGs J&M 14.4-14.7
Tues 4/24 Noun phrase co-reference resolution J&M 21.3-21.8 Critique 5: due MON 4/23
Project 4 (Part 1): due
Thurs 4/26 Reference in language  
Tues 5/1 Inference (slides) J&M 19.5, 21.2, 22.4, 24.7, Critique 6: due
Thurs 5/3   Project 4: due FRI 5/4