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Topic |
Readings |
Assignments |
| Jan 15 |
Course overview |
Chapter 1 of SLP |
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| Jan 18 |
Finite-state Automata |
Chapter 2 and 3 of SLP |
POS
Slides |
| Jan 22 |
N-grams and Transducers |
Chapter 4 of SLP |
POS
Slides |
| Jan 25 |
Part-of-speech Tagging |
Chapters 1–3 of NLTK, Chapter 5 of SLP |
POS
Slides |
| Jan 29 |
Hidden Markov Models, Maximum Entropy |
Chapter 6 of SLP |
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| Feb 1 |
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| Feb 5 |
Computational Linguistics Olympiad |
Chunk Parsing |
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| Feb 8 |
Parsing Natural Language |
Chapter 13 of SLP |
Parsing Slides
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| Feb 12 |
Probabilistic Parsing |
Chapter 14 of SLP |
Prob. Parsing Slides
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| Feb 15 |
Head Parsing, Parsing with Features |
Hindle and Rooth |
Feature Parsing Slides |
| Feb 19 |
Midterm Recess (no class) |
Church and Hanks |
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| Feb 22 |
Midterm Recess (no class) |
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| Feb 26 |
Collocations, Word Similarity |
Collocation Sildes
| Chunking Assignment |
| Feb 29 |
Leaping into Corpus Analysis |
Ed Loper's Slides |
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| Mar 4 |
Lexical Semantics: Part 1 |
Slides |
Quiz |
| Mar 7 |
Lexical Semantics: Part 2 |
Slides |
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| Mar 11 |
Compositional Semantics |
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| Mar 14 |
Lambda Calculus, functional programming |
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| Mar 18 |
No Class today. |
Quiz will be on Tuesday |
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| Mar 21 |
Good Friday (no class) |
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| Mar 25 |
Quiz 2: Grammars |
Quiz Themes |
Handed out: Semantic Role Labeling |
| Mar 28 |
Semantic Role Labeling |
SRL Slides |
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| Apr 1 |
Discourse Structure |
Discourse Part 1 |
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| Apr 4 |
Ben Wellner: Penn Discourse TreeBank |
Identifying PDTB Relations |
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| Apr 8 |
Question Answering: 1 |
SLP Chapter 23 |
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| Apr 11 |
Question Answering: 2 |
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| Apr 15 |
Temporal Reasoning over Texts |
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| Apr 18 |
Using Temporal Information in QA |
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| Apr 22 |
Passover (no class) |
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| Apr 25 |
Passover (no class) |
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| Apr 29 |
Last Day (Brandeis Friday) |
Question Answering
Systems
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