Calendar

1Jan 9-13Introduction
Tu
Topics:
Coursework
What's a language?
Knowing a language
Th
Topics:
What makes language special/hard
Assignment:
Homework 1 due (see Oncourse Forums)
2Jan 16-20Introduction
Tu
Topics:
What makes language special/hard: tasks
Python overview
Reading:
NLTK 1
Th
Topics:
Analysis, generation, translation
Knowledge-based and statistical methods
Reading:
NLTK 2.1, 2.2
3Jan 23-27Introduction/Speech
Tu
Topics:
Overview of knowledge-based methods
Overview of statistical methods
Project ideas
Reading:
Pedersen
Th
Topics:
Introduction to phonetics and phonology
Speech recognition
Speech synthesis
4Jan 30-Feb 3Words
Tu
Topics:
Morphology and FSTs (1)
W
Assignment:
Homework 2 due
Th
Topics:
Language learning
Minimum description length
5Feb 6-10Words
Tu
Topics:
Unsupervised learning of morphology
Reading:
Goldsmith, discussants: Rohit, Asaf, Suyog
Assignment:
Project topic proposal
Th
Topics:
Word meaning
6Feb 13-17Words
Tu
Topics:
Word senses
Reading:
McCarthy et al., discussants: Yuanzhe, Melody, Mark
Th
Topics:
Semantic similarity
Reading:
Turney, discussants: Sandip, Kai, Saminda
7Feb 20-24Sentences
Tu
Topics:
Semantic similarity
Reading:
Tsang and Stevenson, discussants: Rohit, Asaf, Sandip
Th
Topics:
Syntax and chunking
Constituency grammars
Reading:
NLTK 7, NLTK 8
Assignment:
Homework 3 due (Wednesday)
8Feb 27-Mar 2Sentences
Tu
Topics:
Constituency grammars
Th
Topics:
Parsing
9Mar 5-9Sentences
Tu
Topics:
Dependency grammars and parsing
W
Last day to withdraw
Th
Topics:
Dependency grammars 2
Reading:
Nivre et al., discussants: Suyog, Yuanzhe, Mark
Mar 12-16Spring Break
10Mar 19-23Sentences
Tu
Topics:
Lexical databases and ontologies
Reading:
Gamallo et al., discussants: Kai, Saminda, Melody
Assignment:
Homework 4 due (Monday)
Th
Topics:
Semantic roles
Reading:
Gildea and Jurafsky, discussants: Rohit, Asaf, Suyog
Assignment:
Project progress report 1
11Mar 26-30Sentences
Tu
Topics:
Generating referring expressions
Th
Topics:
Natural language generation
Reading:
Teufel and Moens, discussants: Yuanzhe, Melody, Mark
12Apr 2-6Sentences
Tu
Topics:
Language differences
Rule-based machine translation
Th
Topics:
Example-based machine translation
13Apr 9-13Sentences
Tu
Topics:
Statistical machine translation
Reading:
Forcada et al., discussants: Sandip, Kai, Saminda
Th
Topics:
Statistical machine translation
14Apr 16-20Discourse
Tu
Topics:
SMT
Reading:
Munteanu and Marcu, discussants: Mark, Asaf, Suyog
Assignment:
Homework 5 due (Wednesday)
Th
Topics:
Opinion mining
Reading:
Wiebe et al., discussants: Yuanzhe, Melody, Rohit
Assignment:
Project progress report 2
15Apr 23-27Discourse
Tu
Topics:
Dialog
Reading:
Passonneau et al., discussants: Sandip, Kai, Saminda
Th
Topics:
Wrap-up
Assignment:
Final in-class discussion
Fin Apr 30-May 4
Th
Assignment:
Oral project reports (5:00-7:00pm)
Written project reports due at 11:59pm

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