CS 1671: Human Language Technologies (Spring 2012)

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Lecture # Date Topics Readings Assignments
1 1/04 (Wed) Course Introduction (intro.ppt)
Linguistic Essentials (lingEssentials.ppt)
J&M: Chapter 1
Assignment 1 out. Read this before class on Monday!
2 1/09 (Mon) Finish slides from last time.
Go over assignment 1.
J&M: Chapter 2
3 1/11 (Wed) Regular Expressions and Automata (Chapter 2)(chapter2.ppt) J&M: Chapter 3 (3.8-3.12 for interest only)
1/16 (Mon) University Closed To stay on track, finish Q1 of Assignment 1 by now.
4 1/18 (Wed) Morphological Analysis (Chapter 3)(chapter3.ppt)
5 1/23 (Mon) Finish morphological analysis. Possibly start N-Grams. Assignment 1 due
6 1/25 (Wed) N-Grams (Chapter 4 Part 1)(chapter4part1.ppt)
J&M Chapter 4, through Section 4.5.1 Assignment 2 out.

The solution to Assignment 2 was mailed to students.

assign2trainingdata.txt.

7 1/30 (Mon) N-Grams (Chapter 4 Part 2)(chapter4part2.ppt)
Part of speech tagging (Chapter 5 Part 1)(chapter5part1.ppt)
J&M Chapter 5, through Section 5.7; J&M Sections 6.1-6.2; 6.4
8 2/01 (Wed) Part of speech tagging (Chapter 5 Part 2)(chapter5part2.ppt
9 2/06 (Mon) Finish part of speech tagging Assignment 2 due
10 2/08 (Wed) No Class Assignment 3 out

The solution to Assignment 3 was mailed to the students.

generate.py and generateInput.txt

11 2/13 (Mon) Context-Free Grammars (Chapter 12)(chapter12.ppt)
Examples of generate.py
J&M Chapter 12; J&M Chapter 13 through 13.4 (though I would read the rest of the chapter for your interest - it is about partial parsing)
12 2/15 (Wed)
13 2/20 (Mon) Review
midtermreview.txt
Assignment 3 due at the beginning of class; No late assignments accepted, since we will go over it today.
14 2/22 (Wed) Midterm
Midterm Solution
Midterm
15 2 /27 (Mon) Parsing (Chapter 13)(chapter13.ppt)

Chapter 13 study guide)(chapter13studyguide.txt)


16 2/29 (Wed) Statistical Parsing (Chapter 14)(chapter14part1.ppt)

chapter14part1 study guide

J&M Chapter 14 through 14.3 Assignment 4 out

Assignment 4 solution

3/05 (Mon) University Closed
3/07 (Wed) University Closed
17 3/12 (Mon) Finish chapter 14, part 1 (above).
Statistical Parsing (Chapter 14)(chapter14part2.ppt)

chapter14part2 study guide

chapter14part2 study guide solutions

J&M Chapter 14.4-14.8
18 3/14 (Wed) Go over the project.
Continue with chapter 14, part 2 (above).
Assignment 4 due

19 3/19 (Mon) Finish chapter 14, part 2 (above).
20 3/21 (Wed) Go over Project, Part 2.

Finish Chapter 14 (see above)

Project, Part 1 due

Files for the project.

What to do and hand in for Project, Part 1.

21 3/26 (Mon) Chapter 19, lexical semantics.

Slides: chapter19.ppt

Resnik & Yarowsky (2000)

Chapter 19 study guide

Chapter 19 study guide solutions

J&M Chapter 19.
22 3/28 (Wed) Answer questions about the project

Finish Chapter 19 (above).

J&M Chapter 20
23 4/02 (Mon) Go over Project, Part 3. Slides: projectPart3.ppt

Chapter 20, Computational Lexical Semantics.

Slides: chapter20part1.ppt

Chapter 20 Part 1 Study Guide: chapter20part1studyguide.txt

Chapter 20 Part 1 Study Guide Solution: chapter20part1studyguideSol.txt

Files for the project.

Project, Part 2 due

What to do and hand in for Project, Part 2.

24 4/04 (Wed) Chapter 20, Computational Lexical Semantics.

Slides: chapter20part2.ppt

Chapter 20 Part 2 Study Guide: chapter20part2studyguide.txt

Chapter 20 Part 2 Study Guide Solution: chapter20part2studyguideSol.txt

25 4/09 (Mon) Continue with chapter 20.
26 4/11 (Wed) Finish Chapter 20.

Files for the project.

Project, Part 3 due.

What to do and hand in for Project, Part 3.

27 4/16 (Mon) Computational Discourse. Slides: discourse.ppt

Study Guide discoursestudyguide.txt

J&M: Chapter 21 through section 21.5
28 4/18 (Wed) Files for the project.

Project, Part 4 due.

What to do and hand in for Project, Part 4.

Friday, April 27, 2pm-3:50pm; CL 329 Final Exam

Information

Here are zips of the files you need to study for the final.

NOTE: if you downloaded ppts.zip before Thursday, download it again. chapter20part2.ppt was missing.

ppts.zip

txts.zip

pdfs.zip

LOCATION: CL 329 Final Exam, CL 329