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 and problem sets for each lecture will be posted after each class.
| Week | Date | Topic | Readings | Assignment |
| 1 | Jan. 13 | Course Introduction | Ch. 1 | |
| Jan. 15 | Regular expressions and FSAs | Ch. 2 | ||
| 2 | Jan. 20 | English Morphology | Ch. 3 | |
| Jan. 22 | FSTs/Segmentation | Ch. 3 | ||
| 3 | Jan. 27 | Statistical Language Models | Ch. 4 | |
| Jan. 29 | cont. | Ch. 4 | Assignment 1 | |
| 4 | Feb. 3 | POS tagging |
Ch. 5 | |
| Feb. 5 | cont. | Ch. 5 | Assignment 1 due | |
| 5 | Feb. 10 | HMMs |
Ch. 6 | |
| Feb. 12 | cont. | |||
| 6 | Feb. 17 | Quiz 1 | Covers Chs. 1-6 |
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| Feb. 19 | Spoken Language | |
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| 7 | Feb. 24 | Syntax and Grammars | Ch. 12 | |
| Feb. 26 | CFG-based Parsing | Chap 12 | ||
| 8 | Mar. 3 | CFG-based Parsing | Ch. 13 | |
| Mar. 5 | Dependency Parsing | Ch. 13 | ||
| 9 | Mar. 10 | Statistical Parsing | Ch. 14 | |
| Mar. 12 | Statistical Parsing | Ch. 14 | ||
| 10 | Mar. 16 | Quiz 1 Makeup | 12-1:15, Fleming 279 | |
| Mar. 17 | Semantic Representations | Ch. 14 | ||
| Mar. 19 | Semantic Representations | Ch. 17 | ||
| 11 | Mar. 24 | Spring Break | No classes | |
| Mar. 26 | Spring Break | No classes | ||
| 12 | Mar. 31 | Word Sense Disambiguation | Chap. 18, 19 | |
| April 2 | Quiz 2 | Covers Ch. 12-14, 17-19 | ||
| 13 | April 7 | Topic Models |
IR Chapter 13 |
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| April 9 | Machine Translation | Chapter 25 | ||
| 14 | April 14 | Semantics and Vector Space word representations | See d2l | |
| April 16 | Evolution of Language; NLP for Social Media | Project Reports | ||
| 15 | April 21 | Tweet NLP; Sentiment Analysis | Project Reports | |
| April 23 | Neural Nets and ASR; Ngrams | Project Reports | ||
| 16 | April 28 | Speech Synthesis; Arabic SRL | Project Reports | |
| April 30 | Image Captioning; Medical Informatics | Project Reports | ||
| 17 | May 4, Midnight | Project Papers Due |