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 |
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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. | |
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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 |
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13 | Nov. 19 | cont. |
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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 |