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)