Spring 2013

Schedule may change. Please check the website regularly.

Class Date Topic Readings Assignments
1 Jan 14 Intro Ch 1  
2 Jan 16 Formal Language Models Ch 2  
3 Jan 21 No class Ch 2  
4 Jan 23 Words and Transducers Ch 3 Assignment 1
5 Jan 28 Probabilities, N-grams Ch 4  
6 Jan 30 N-grams Ch 5  
7 Feb 4 Part of Speech Tagging POST, Manning 2011 Assignment 1 due
8 Feb 6 HMMs Ch 6  
9 Feb 11 Review Ch 6  
10 Feb 13 Test 1
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11 Feb 25 Syntax Ch 12  
12 Feb 27 Parsing Ch 13 Assignment 1, part 2 due
13 Mar 4 Parsing continued
14 Mar 6 Partial parsing NLTK Book, Ch. 7 Ch 13  
15 Mar 11 Probabilistic parsing Ch 14, 15  
16 Mar 13 Parsing with features, Reveiw
17 Mar 18 Test 2 Assignment 2 due
18 Mar 20 Lexical Semantics Ch 19, 20  
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20 Apr 3 Lexical Semantics 2   Assignment 3 Due
21 Apr 8 Lexical Semantics 3  
22 Apr 10 Semantic roles  
23 Apr 15 TBD  
24 Apr 17 Features  Take home quiz due
25 Apr 22 Classifiers Ch 22, Ch 6 NLTK  
26 Apr 24 Classifiers
29 Apr 29 Computational Discourse Ch 21  
28 May 1 Review  
  TBD Final Exam