Spring 2015

Schedule may change. Please check the website regularly.

Class Date Topic Readings Assignments
1 Jan 13 Intro, Intro From Textbook NLAML Ch 1  
2 Jan 16 Annotation Topics
3 Jan 20 Corpus Linguistics NLAML Ch 2  
4 Jan 23 Introduction to MAE
5 Jan 27 SNOW DAY NLAML Ch 3
6 Jan 30 Building your model and Specifications NLAML Ch 4; Dysflluency Guide; Modeling Conversational Speech.pdf
7 Feb 3 Annotation efforts: Student presentations; Project preparation NLAML Ch 5 Presentations on Annotation Projects
8 Feb 6 Annotation efforts: Student presentations (continued)
9 Feb 10 SNOW DAY  Task Description and Contract
10 Feb 13 Groups present task descriptions; Inital Annotation Spec
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11 Feb 24 Corpus exploration; Ziph's Law Full Annotation Spec
12 Feb 27 Groups present Specs
13 Mar 3 Evalutation; Annotation and adjudication NLAML Ch 6; Artstein & Poesio, Inter-Coder Agreement for CL Groups present draft guidelines
14 Mar 6 Anna Rumshisky: Word Similarity Final Annotation Guidlines and Corpus, begin swap annotation
15 Mar 10 In class annotation & feedback
16 Mar 13 In class annotation & feedback NLAML Ch 7 Revised annotation guidelines
17 Mar 17 Classification
18 Mar 20 Feature Selection NLAML Ch 8
19 Mar 24 More Feature Selection NLAML Ch 9
20 Mar 27 Named Entity and more classification NLAML Ch 10-11
21 Mar 31 Semi-supervised Learning/plist>   Annotation complete
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22 Apr 14 Project recap Collocations   Annotation/Annotation Report Due, Begin Adjudication
23 Apr 17 Groups present summarization of data, IAA, ML Plan
24 Apr 21
25 Apr 24
26 Apr 28    Gold Standard Release
  TBD Final Presentations