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Date |
Topics |
Reading |
Slides |
Homework |
| 1 |
Tue, 08/25 |
Introduction; Course Overview |
Ch. 1 (PDF),
Python tutorial(sec.1-4) |
PDF
(HO)
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| 2 |
Thu, 08/27 |
Finite-State Transducers and Morphology |
Ch.3.1-7 (Ch.2); and 1 and 2 |
PDF
(HO)
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| 3 |
Tue, 09/02 |
N-grams |
Ch. 4.1-4, 4.10 |
PDF
(HO) |
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| 4 |
Thu, 09/04 |
Smoothing and Evaluation |
Ch. 4.5-7 |
PDF
(HO) |
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| 5 |
Tue, 09/09 |
Part-of-speech tagging |
Ch. 5.1-5, 5.7-8 |
PDF
(HO) |
HW 1 |
| 6 |
Thu, 09/11 |
Hidden Markov Models |
Ch. 6.1-5 |
PDF
(HO) |
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| 7 |
Tue, 09/16 |
Formal Grammars of English |
Ch. 12.1-7 |
PDF
(HO) |
HW1 (corr.) |
| 8 |
Thu, 09/18 |
Parsing algorithms for CFGs |
Ch. 13.1-4 |
PDF
(HO) |
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| 9 |
Tue, 09/23 |
Statistical parsing with CFGs |
Ch. 14.1-7 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 10 |
Thu, 09/25 |
Feature Structures and limitations of CFGs |
Ch. 15.1-6 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 11 |
Tue, 09/30 |
Expressive Grammar Formalisms |
TBA |
PDF (HO) |
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| 12 |
Thu, 10/02 |
Maximum Entropy Models |
Ch. 6.6-8 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 13 |
Tue, 10/07 |
Meaning Representations |
Ch. 17.1-3, 18.2-3 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 14 |
Thu, 10/09 |
Revision for Midterm |
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PDF (HO) |
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| 15 |
Tue, 10/14 |
Midterm Exam |
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| 16 |
Thu, 10/16 |
Guest lecture, Prof. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson |
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| 17 |
Tue, 10/21 |
Lexical Semantics |
Ch. 19.1-4 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 18 |
Thu, 10/23 |
Word Sense Disambiguation |
Ch. 20.1-4 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 19 |
Tue, 10/28 |
Word Similarity |
Ch. 20.5-8 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 20 |
Thu, 10/30 |
Discourse structure and coherence |
Ch. 21 1-2 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 21 |
Tue, 11/04 |
Anaphora, Centering |
Ch. 21.3-4 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 22 |
Thu, 11/06 |
Coreference |
Ch. 21.5-8 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 23 |
Tue, 11/11 |
Natural Language Generation |
Ch. 24.2, Reiter&Dale'97 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 24 |
Thu, 11/13 |
Information extraction |
Ch. 22., Cunningham '06 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 25 |
Tue, 11/18 |
Question answering and summarization |
Ch. 23.1-7 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 26 |
Thu, 11/20 |
Dialog |
Ch. 24.1,2,4,5 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 27 |
Tue, 12/02 |
Machine Translation |
Ch. 25.1-3 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 28 |
Thu, 12/04 |
Machine Translation |
Ch. 25.4-9 |
PDF (HO) |
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| 29 |
Tue, 12/09 |
Review |
Errata |
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Tue, 12/16 |
Final Exam 7-8:30pm 1103 Siebel Center |
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