Instructor: Prof. Lillian
Lee.
Office hours: usually Fridays 10:45-11:45 or by appointment, but please check my webpage, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee, for updates.
Lectures: TR 10:10–11:25, Upson 315
Midterm: March 18th, in class; Final: Thursday May 13, 2-4:30pm, Upson 315
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Philosophy, Spring 2010: This class is a graduate-level introduction to research fundamentals for information retrieval and natural language processing. The course focuses on the development and derivation of major ideas, and aims to promote research skills for students working in and outside of language technologies.While this course is thus not primarily a survey of the field, pointers to related/current work will be provided. Because of the wealth of Cornell machine-learning courses, learning is not an emphasis of this class (despite its immense importance in the field) to avoid overlap.
Please see the Course description and policies handout for more information.
Tentative syllabus: See “Lectures” section/tab.
Prerequisites: (Firm) knowledge of elementary computer science, probability, and linear algebra. Neither CS/INFO 4300 nor CS/COGST/LING 4740 are prerequisites.
Course description and policies. Includes course philosophy, course work requirements, exam dates, and tentative syllabus.
Homepage for my previous running of this course click here for Fall 07
Reference texts
Pointers to papers
Datasets and software: