Lectures and Readings

The bulk of the readings will be from  Speech and Language Processing, additional readings from journals and conferences will be posted here. Please complete the listed readings prior to coming to class.

The slides for each lecture will be posted after each class.  You can also review the recorded lectures (not a substitute for coming to class) by going to the CAETE site and logging in with your identikey.

Week Date Topic Readings Assignment
1 Aug. 27 Course Introduction Ch. 1
Aug. 29 Regular expressions and FSAs Ch. 2
2 Sept. 3 English Morphology Ch. 3
Sept. 5 FSTs/Segmentation Ch. 3
3 Sept. 10 Statistical Language Models Ch. 4 Assignment 1
Sept. 12 cont. Ch. 4
4 Sept. 17 POS tagging
Ch. 5 Assignment 1 due
Sept. 19 cont. Ch. 5
5 Sept. 24 HMMs
Ch. 6
Sept. 26 cont.
6 Oct. 1 Quiz 1
Covers Chs. 1-6
Oct. 3 Syntax and Grammars
Ch. 12
7 Oct. 8 CFG-based Parsing Ch. 13
Oct. 10 cont.
8 Oct. 15 Statistical Parsing Ch. 14
Oct. 17 Cont.
9 Oct. 22 Dependency Parsing Ch. 13
Oct. 24 Semantic Role Labeling Ch. 14
10 Oct. 29 cont. Ch. 17
Oct 31 Word Sense Disambiguation Ch. 18
11 Nov. 5 cont.
Nov. 7 Quiz 2 Covers Chs. 12-14, 17-18
12 Nov. 12 Topic Models
Nov. 14 cont. IR Chapter 13
13 Nov. 19 cont.
Nov. 21 Machine Translation
14 Nov. 26 Fall Break
Nov. 28 Fall Break

15 Dec. 3 Machine Translation
Ch. 25
Dec. 5 cont.
Ch. 25
16 Dec. 10 cont. Ch. 25
Dec. 12 Final Review/Wrapup
17 Dec. 17 Final Exam, 4:30 to 7:00; ECEE 283