| Jan 25 | Introduction |  | NLP (circa 2001) | 
    
      | Jan 30 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      |  | Text classification |  | M&S 7.4,16.2-16.3, Collins: Naive Bayes (Sec 1-4), Collins: Log Linear (Sec 2), MaxEnt, Baselines, CNN Classification Naive Bayes prior derivation | 
    
      | Feb 1 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      | Feb 6 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      | Feb 8 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      | Feb 13 | ” |  |  | 
    
      |  | Neural networks | PDF | Primer, Back-prop, Deep Averaging Networks, Gradient Checks (briefly), Gradient Checks (in details) | 
    
      | Feb 15 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      |  | Computation graphs |  | Intro to Computation Graphs | 
    
      | Feb 20 | No class – Feburary break |  |  | 
    
      | Feb 22 | Lexical semantics and embeddings | PDF | w2v explained, word2vec, word2vec phrases, Hill2016, Turney2010 | 
    
      | Feb 27 | DyNet and error analysis |  | DyNet tutorials | 
    
      | Mar 1 | Lexical semantics (contd.) | PDF |  | 
    
      | Mar 6 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      |  | Language modeling |  | J&M 4, M&S 6, Collins: LM, Smoothing, Char RNN | 
    
      | Mar 8 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      | Mar 13 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      | Mar 15 | ” |  |  | 
    
      |  | Sequence modeling |  | J&M 5.1-5.3, 6, M&S 3.1, 9, 10.1-10.3, Collins: HMM, Collins: MEMMs (Sec 3), Collins: CRF (sec 4), Collins: Forward-backward, SOTA Taggers, TnT Tagger, Stanford Tagger | 
    
      | Mar 20 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      | Mar 22 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      | Mar 27 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      | Mar 29 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      |  | Recurrent neural networks |  | BPTT, RNN Tutorial, Effectiveness, Luong2015 | 
    
      | Apr 3 | No class – spring break |  |  | 
    
      | Apr 5 | No class – spring break |  |  | 
    
      | Apr 10 | Recurrent neural networks | PDF |  | 
    
      | Apr 12 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      | Apr 17 | Dependency parsing | PDF | J&M 12.7, Nivre2003, Chen2014 | 
    
      | Apr 19 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      | Apr 24 | Constituency parsing | PDF | J&M 12.1-12.6, 13.1-13.4, 14.1-14.4, M&S 11, 12.1, Collins: PCFGs, Eisner: Inside-outside, Collins: Inside-outside | 
    
      | Apr 26 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      | May 1 | ” |  |  | 
    
      |  | IBM translation models | PDF | J&M 25.5, M&S 13.1-13.2, Collins: IBM Models, IBM Models, Collins: EM (Sec 5-6), HMM alignments, IBM Model 2 EM Notebook | 
    
      | May 3 | ” | PDF |  | 
    
      |  | Meta NLP |  |  | 
    
      | May 8 | ” |  |  |