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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 and problem sets for each lecture will be posted after each class.

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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
Feb. 19 Spoken Language
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
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