Spring 2014

Schedule may change. Please check the website regularly.

Class Date Topic Readings Assignments
1 Jan 13 Intro Ch 1  
2 Jan 15 Formal Language Models Ch 2 Assignment 1
3 Jan 20 No class Ch 2  
4 Jan 22 Words and Transducers Ch 3
5 Jan 27 Probabilities, N-grams Ch 4
6 Jan 29 N-grams Ch 5 Assignment 1 due
7 Feb 3 Part of Speech Tagging POST, Manning 2011 Assignment 1, part 2
8 Feb 5 HMMs Ch 6  
9 Feb 10 Snow day  
10 Feb 12 Review
  Feb17 BREAK ------ ------
  Feb 19 BREAK ------ ------
11 Feb 24 Test 1 Assignment 1, part 2 due
12 Feb 26 Syntax Ch 12 Assignment 2
13 Mar 3 Partial parsing NLTK Book, Ch. 7 Ch 13
14 Mar 5 Parsing Ch 13  
15 Mar 10 Parsing continued Sparser  
16 Mar 12 Probabilistic parsing Ch 14, 15 Assignment 2 due 3/14
17 Mar 17 Probabilistic Parsing Continued Take home quiz due
18 Mar 19 Lexical Semantics Ch 19, 20 Assignment 3 Due 4/4
  Mar 24 Lexical Semantics 2
  Mar 26 Lexical Semantics 3
19 Mar 31 Review and Semantic roles  
20 Apr 2 Test 2   Assignment 3 Due 4/4
21 Apr 7 Features  Ch 22, Ch 6 NLTK
22 Apr 9 Classifiers
23 Apr 14 More Classifiers  
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26 Apr 23 Computational Discourse Ch 21
29 Apr 28 Computational Discourse and Review  
  TBD Final Exam