Schedule (including projects and midterm) is subject to change.
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Aug 26 |
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Background. Introduction
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Read J&M Chapter 1
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Aug 28 |
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Preliminaries, history, etc |
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Aug 31 |
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Introduction to NLTK |
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Sept 4 |
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Regular expressions |
Project 1, due 9/28
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Sept 9 |
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Words and language models. Probability and statistics background |
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Sept 11 |
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The noisy channel model |
Do the practice problems given in class
Read J&M Sections 4.(1&2)
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Sept 14 |
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N-grams
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Read J&M Sections 4.(3&4)
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Sept 18 |
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More about N-grams
Handout |
Read J&M Sections 4.(5-7)
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Sept 23 |
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Good-Turing smoothing
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Sept 25 |
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Engineering a language model |
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Sept 28 |
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Linear interpolation |
Read J&M 3.(10-12)
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Sept 30 |
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Edit distance |
Project 1 due
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Oct 2 |
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More on edit distance |
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Oct 5 |
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Information theory. Introduction to information theory. Entropy and perplexity
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Project 2
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Oct 9 |
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MIDTERM |
Read J&M 4.10-11
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Oct 12 |
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The entropy of English
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Read J&M 3.1 and 5.(1-3)
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Oct 14 |
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Hidden Markov Models. Lexical categories
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Oct 16 |
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Introduction to Hidden Markov Models |
Read J&M 5.(4 & 5)
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Oct 21 |
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More HMMs |
Read J&M 6.(1-5)
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Oct 30 |
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More HMM training |
Project 4
Read J&M 6.(6-9)
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Nov 2 |
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Maximum entropy models |
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Nov 4 |
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Work on project(s) |
Read J&M ch 19 (focus on 19.(1-3))
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Nov 6 |
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Lexical semantics. Intrduction to lexical semantics |
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Nov 9 |
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Applied lexical semantics |
In-class activity
Read J&M Ch 12 and 13:1-4 (by Nov 20)
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Nov 11 |
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Grammars and parsing. Grammars |
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Nov 16 |
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Guest lecturer: Jonathan Dailey from SIL |
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Nov 23 |
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CKY parsing algorithm |
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Nov 30 |
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Work on project(s) |
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Dec 2 |
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Applications. Authorship attribution |
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Dec 7 |
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Guest lecturer: Leanne Miller, presenting on Support Vector Machines |
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Dec 9 |
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More on authorship attribution |
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