ECE 464: Natural Language Processing
Fall 2011
Wednesdays 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Rm 427;
Thursdays 4:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Rm 427
Instructor:
Carl Sable
e-mail: CarlSable.Cooper@gmail.com
Office: Room 614
"Speech and Language Processing, 2nd Edition"
by Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin
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Individual Programming Project: 33 1/3%
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for corpora for Project #1
Project #1 is due before midnight the night of Tuesday, November 8
- Group Programming Project: 33 1/3%
Proposals
are due in class on Thursday, November 17
In class project demos take place in class on Wednesday, December 14
Submission of all project materials is due before midnight
on Friday, December 16
- Test: 33 1/3%
The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.
- Wednesday, September 7
Introduction
Suggested reading: Ch. 1 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, September 8
Regular Expressions, Finite-State Automata, and Transducers
Suggested reading: Ch. 2 and Sec. 3.4 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Wednesday, September 14
Morphology
Suggested reading: Ch. 3 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, September 14
Morphology (continued)
- Wednesday, September 21
N-Grams
Suggested reading: Ch. 4 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, September 22
N-Grams (continued)
- Wednesday, September 28
Part-of-Speech Tagging
Suggested reading: Ch. 5 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, September 29
Part-of-Speech Tagging (continued)
- Wednesday, October 5
Part-of-Speech Tagging (continued)
- Thursay, October 6
Information Retrieval and Text Categorization
Suggested reading: Section 23.1 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Wednesday, October 12
Information Retrieval and Text Categorization (continued)
- Thursday, October 13
Information Retrieval and Text Categorization (continued)
- Wednesday, October 19
Project #1 assigned
Question Answering and Summarization
Suggested reading: Chapter 23 (other than Section 23.1)
of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, October 20
Question Answering and Summarization (continued)
- Wednesday, October 26
Natural Language Grammars
Suggested reading: Chapter 12 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, October 27
Natural Language Grammars (continued)
- Wednesday, November 2
Natural Language Grammars (continued)
- Thursday, November 3
Parsing
Suggested reading: Chapter 13 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Wednesday, November 9
Parsing (continued)
- Thursday, November 10
Probabilistic Parsing
Suggested reading: Sections 14.1 - 14.6 and 14.10
of Jurafsky and Martin
- Wednesday, November 16
Semantics
Suggested reading: Chapter 17 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, November 17
Semantics (continued)
- Wednedsay, November 23
Lexical Semantics
Suggested reading: Chapter 19 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, November 24
NO CLASS: Thanksgiving
- Wednesday, November 30
Discourse
Suggested reading: Sections 21.1 - 21.3
of Jurafsky and Martin
Information Extraction
Suggested reading: Chapter 22 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, December 1
Information Extraction (continued)
- Wednesday, December 7
Machine Translation
Suggested reading: Chapter 25 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, December 8
Machine Translation (continued)
- Wednesday, December 14
FINAL PROJECT DEMOS
- Tuesday, December 20
Take-home final exams are due