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 |
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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) |
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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 |