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 | | - Course introduction
- Probability
| - Course introduction slides
- JM 1
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| 2 | | | | | 3 | | - 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)
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| 4 | | | | | 5 | | | |
| 6 | | - Part-of-speech tagging
- Hidden Markov Models
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| 7 | | | | | 8 | | - Hidden Markov models
- Mid-term exam review (3/9)
- Mid-term exam (3/11)
| | | * | Spring Break
| | | | 9 | | - Discriminative models
- Maximum entropy Markov models
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| 10
| | - Maximum entropy markov models
- Information extraction
| | | 11 | | - 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.)
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| 12 | | - Grammar
- Meaning representations
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| 13 | | - 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
| | 14 | | - Statistical parsing
- Topic models
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| 15 | | - Geolocation
- Final exam review (5/6)
| | | Exams | | Final Exam: Thursday, May 12. CBA 4.328 | | |
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