| Topic | Reading | Assignments |
| Course Overview and Knowledge of Language (8/31, 9/2) | Linguistic Background Handouts (optional)
Ch 1 |
Paper preferences (assigned 8/31, due 9/7) |
| Regular Expressions and Automata (9/2, 9/7) | Ch 2 | Homework 1 (assigned 9/9, due 9/28) |
| Morphology and Finite State Transducers (9/9, 9/14, 9/16) | Ch 3
How to read a research paper (1) |
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| N-Gram Models of Syntax (9/16, 9/21, 9/23) | Ch 6
Hoffmann (9/23) Pail (9/28) |
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| Word Classes and Part of Speech Tagging (9/28, 9/30) | Ch 8
J. Clause (10/5) Maeireizo (10/5) Xi (10/7) |
Homework 2 (assigned 10/5, due 10/19)
For fun: Conjunction Junction |
| Context-Free Grammars for English (10/5, 10/7) | Ch 9
Misurda (10/12) Myers (10/14) |
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| Parsing with CFGs (10/12, 10/14) | Ch 10
Tokarczyk (10/19) |
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| Other Parsing (10/19)
Midterm Review, Semantics, Project (10/21) |
Ch 12 | |
| Midterm Exam (10/26) | NO MAKEUPS | |
| Lexical Semantics (10/21, 10/28) | Ch 16
Liu (10/28) Mcconnell (10/28) Purandare (11/2) |
Project assigned |
| Word Sense Disambiguation and Information Retrieval (11/2, 11/4) | Ch 17
Ai (11/4) Kessler (11/9) |
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| Representing Meaning (11/4) | Ch 14 | |
| Semantic Analysis (11/4, 11/9, 11/11) | Ch 15
E. Clause (11/11) Taylor (11/23) |
Homework 3 (assigned 11/11, due 11/23) |
| Discourse (11/16, 11/18) Dr. Pam Jordan, guest lecturer |
Ch 18
Lynch (11/30) Maxatchev (12/2) |
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| Dialogue and Conversational Agents (11/23, 11/30, 12/2, 12/7) | Ch 19
Nunez-Varela (12/7) |
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| Project Presentations (12/9) | 9 teams at 10 minutes each (class will be a little long) | Project Reports Due - hardcopy to me, electronic to dropbox |
| Closure (12/14)
Final Exam Review |
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| Final Exam (12/16) | Non-cumulative NO MAKEUPS |