Course schedule. Subject to change. If you want to look ahead a bit, you can look at the course schedule from last year -- many things will be different, but there is a great deal of overlap.

Assignments are due by class time (12:00pm) on their due date. "JM" refers to the Jurafsky and Martin textbook.

Week	Dates	Topics	Materials	Assignments
1	1/19 1/21	Course introduction Probability	Course introduction slides JM 1
2	1/24 1/26 1/28	Probability	Probability overview slides (by Markus Dickinson) Univariate Probability, chapter from Roger Levy's draft book Probabilistic Models in the Study of Language. Probability Theory Review from Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course Probability exercises for in class.
3	1/31 2/2 2/4	Text classification (Sentiment analysis) Guest lecture on word meaning by Katrin Erk. (2/2)	Document classification slides (for background on sentiment analysis -- they are primarily for my other class -and include lots of more basic content)
4	2/7 2/9 2/11	Text classification		HW1: Probability (2/7)
5	2/14 2/16 2/18	N-gram language models	JM 4: 83-97 JM 4: 98-113 Language modeling slides. Language modeling slides (by Ray Mooney)
6	2/21 2/23 2/25	Part-of-speech tagging Hidden Markov Models	JM 5: 123-163 POS tagging and HMM slides (by Ray Mooney)
7	2/28 3/2 3/4	Hidden Markov Models	JM 6: 173-192	HW2: Text classification (3/2)
8	3/7 3/9 3/11	Hidden Markov models Mid-term exam review (3/9) Mid-term exam (3/11)	An Interactive Spreadsheet for Teaching the Forward-Backward Algorithm. (by Jason Eisner)
*	Spring Break
9	3/21 3/23 3/25	Discriminative models Maximum entropy Markov models	JM 6: 193-207
10	3/28 3/30 4/1	Maximum entropy markov models Information extraction	JM 6: 207-212 Information extraction slides (by Jim Martin, slightly remixed)	HW3: Language modeling (due 3/30)
11	4/4 4/6 4/8	Information extraction Grammar	JM: 22: 725-743 Categorial Grammar (draft article by Jason Baldridge for the Handbook of Syntax) Additional background reading: Combinatory Categorial Grammar (draft article by Mark Steedman and Jason Baldridge) JM 12. (Note: this chapter discusses context-free grammars---we'll be covering many of the same topics using categorial grammar.)
12	4/11 4/13 4/15	Grammar Meaning representations	JM 17: 545-572
13	4/18 4/20 4/22	Computational semantics Parsing Statistical parsing	JM 18: 583-591 JM 13. 427-443 (Again, we'll be discussing this with respect to categorial grammar.) JM 14: 459-467	HW4: HMM Tagging (due 4/18)
14	4/25 4/27 4/29	Statistical parsing Topic models	Probabilistic topic models (Steyvers and Griffiths 2007) David Blei's topic modelling talk: video and slides.
15	5/2 5/4 5/6	Geolocation Final exam review (5/6)	JM 20: 658-667 JM 23:767-772 Simple supervised document geolocation with geodesic grids (Wing and Baldridge 2011)	HW5: Sentiment analysis (due 5/9)
Exams		Final Exam: Thursday, May 12. CBA 4.328