Course Schedule Schedule is tentative. Check regularly for updates. DATE TOPIC READINGS ASSIGNMENT LINKS 1/15 Intro to CL SLP Chapter 1 (on LATTE) 1/18 Two Cultures of Linguistics and Regular Expressions SLP Chapter 2 Kleene 1951 1/25 Finite State Automata SLP Chapter 3 (2nd ed.) HW1 out 1/29 Neural Networks and Weighted Finite State Transducers IALC Chapter 2.7 (on LATTE) 2/1 N-grams; Edit Distance; and Spelling Correction SLP Chapter 3 (3rd ed.) Gnoetry 2/5 Naive Bayes SLP Chapter B 2/8 Sentiment Analysis SLP Chapter 4 HW1 Due; HW2 out 2/12 Generative; Discriminative; and Information Theory SLP Chapter 5 Ng and Jordan 2002 2/15 Gradient Descent SLP Chapter 5 2/18-2/22 Winter Break 2/26 Collocations HW2 Due 3/1 Hidden Markov Models and POS Tagging SLP Chapter 8 Eisner paper and spreadsheet 3/5 Baum Welch Algorithm SLP Chapter A Example of Baum-Welch 3/8 POS Tagging with HMMS SLP Chapter 10 My slides on POS Tagging 3/12 Quiz Review SLP Chapter 11 3/15 Quiz 3/19 Syntactic Theory (Constituent) and Intro Parsing SLP Chapter 12 3/22 More Statistical Parsing and Dependency Parsing SLP Chapter 13 3/26 Lexical Semantics 3/29 Word Sense Disambiguation SLP Chapter C 4/2 Vector Semantics SLP Chapter 6 4/5 Distributional Semantics SLP Chapter 7 4/9 More Distributional Semantics SLP Chapter 9 Grefenstette (2013) 4/12 Word2vec 4/16 TBD 4/19-4/26 Spring Break 4/30 Review 5/2 Final Exam (in class)