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Lecture Topics / Assignments |
Readings (due on date shown) |
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Aug 27 |
Course
Introduction |
No reading. |
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| 2 |
Sep 1 |
Linguistic Essentials & Python Intro
Assignment 0: Get started with Python
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Python
Programming Fundamentals
Chapter 3 of Foundations of Statistical NLP
Chapter 1 of the book
Natural
Language Processing with Python |
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Sep 3 |
Morphology, stemming, tokenization |
An
introduction
Sessions 3.4 through 3.8 of
Chapter 3 of NLTK
book |
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| 3 |
Sep 8 |
Corpora and lexical resources
Assignment 1 due: Get really started with Python
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Chapter 3 of Foundations of Statistical NLP
Chapter 2 of NLTK book
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Sep 10 |
Word sense disambiguation & intro to probability theory
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Chapter 7 of Foundations of Statistical NLP
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Sep 15 |
Part of speech tagging & intro to graphical models |
Chapter 10 of Foundations of Statistical NLP
Chapter 5 of NLTK book |
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Sep 17 |
Class canceled |
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| 5 |
Sep 22 |
Language Models, intro to smoothing |
Chapter 6 of Foundations of Statistical NLP |
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Sep 24 |
Lexical acquisition
Assignment 2 due |
Chapters 5 and 8 of Foundations of Statistical NLP
Review paper on Similarity measures for WordNet
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Sep 29 |
Review |
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Oct 1 |
Classification (1) |
Chapter 6 of NLTK book |
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Oct 6 |
Classification (2)Assignment 3 due |
Chapter 6 of NLTK book (Session
6.4 on) |
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Oct 8 |
Projects
Guest lecture: Dispute Finder |
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Oct 13 |
Information Extraction (1) |
Chapter 7 of NLTK book
(Extracting Information from Text) |
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Oct 15 |
Information Extraction (2)
Project proposal due |
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| 9 |
Oct 20 |
Project proposals discussion
Assignment
4 due |
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Oct 22 |
Clustering |
Chapter 14 of Foundations of Statistical NLP |
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| 10 |
Oct 27 |
Classification homework |
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Oct 29 |
Guest lecture on cross-language IR (Doug Oard, University of
Maryland) |
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| 11 |
Nov 3 |
No class |
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Nov 5 |
Guest lecture on Machine Translation (John DeNero, CS, UC
Berkeley)
Project checkpoint |
Tutorial on building model 1
(by John DeNero) |
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| 12 |
Nov 10 |
Summarization |
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Nov 12 |
Question answering
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| 13 |
Nov 17 |
Guest lecture by Bill Schilit
(Google Books) |
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Nov 19 |
Guest lecture by Emilia Stoica
(Ask.com)
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Nov 24 |
Sentence
Structure |
Chapter 12 of Foundations of Statistical NLP
Chapter 8 of NLTK book
(Analyzing Sentence Structure) |
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Nov 26 |
Holiday (no class) |
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| 15 |
Dec 1 |
Class Presentations
Final Projects |
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Dec 3 |
Class Presentations |
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