ECE 464: Natural Language Processing

• Instructor Info
• Textbook
• Grading
• Schedule

Instructor Info

Instructor: Carl Sable
e-mail: CarlSable.Cooper@gmail.com
Office: Room 614

Textbook

"Speech and Language Processing, 2nd Edition"
by Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin

Grading

• Test: 33 1/3%
• Individual Programming Project: 33 1/3%
  Click here for corpora for Project #1
  Project #1 is due before midnight the night of Friday, April 2
• Group Programming Project: 33 1/3%

Schedule

The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.

• Wednesday, January 20
  Introduction
  Suggested reading: Ch. 1 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Tuesday, January 26
  Regular Expressions, Finite-State Automata, and Transducers
  Suggested reading: Ch. 2 and Sec. 3.4 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, January 27
  Regular Expressions, Finite-State Automata, and Transducers (continued)
• Tuesday, February 2
  NO CLASS (due to demo in San Diego)
• Wednesday, February 3
  Morphology
  Suggested reading: Ch. 3 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Tuesday, February 9
  Morphology (continued)
• Wednesday, February 10
  NO CLASS (Cooper Union closed due to snow storm)
• Tuesday, February 16
  N-Grams
  Suggested reading: Ch. 4 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, February 17
  N-Grams (continued)
• Tuesday, February 23
  Part-of-Speech Tagging
  Suggested reading: Ch. 5 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, February 24
  Part-of-Speech Tagging (continued)
• Tuesday, March 2
  Part-of-Speech Tagging (continued)
• Wednesday, March 3
  Information Retrieval and Text Categorization
  Suggested reading: Section 23.1 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Tuesday, March 9
  Information Retrieval and Text Categorization (continued)
• Wednesday, March 10
  Information Retrieval and Text Categorization (continued)
  Project #1 assigned
• Tuesday, March 23
  Question Answering and Summarization
  Suggested reading: Chapter 23 (other than Section 23.1) of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, March 24
  Question Answering and Summarization (continued)
• Tuesday, March 30
  Natural Language Grammars
  Suggested reading: Chapter 12 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, March 31
  Natural Language Grammars (continued)
• Tuesday, April 6
  Parsing
  Suggested reading: Chapter 13 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, April 7
  Parsing (continued)
• Tuesday, April 13
  Probabilistic Parsing
  Suggested reading: Sections 14.1 - 14.16 and 14.10 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, April 14
  Semantics
  Suggested reading: Chapter 17 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Tuesday, April 20
  Semantics (continued)
• Wednedsay, April 21
  Lexical Semantics
  Suggested reading: Chapter 19 of Juragsky and Martin
• Tuesday, April 27
  Lexical Semantics (continued)
• Wednesday, April 28
  Machine Translation
  Suggested reading: Chapter 25 of Juragsky and Martin
• Tuesday, May 4
  Machine Translation (continued)
• Wednesday, May 5
  FINAL PROJECT DEMOS
• Tuesday, May 11
  Take-home final exam due