ECE 467: 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

• Individual Programming Project: 33 1/3%
  Click here for corpora for Project #1
  Project #1 is due before midnight the night of Sunday, March 30
• Open Ended Programming Project: 33 1/3%
• Final Exam: 33 1/3%

Schedule

The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.

• Monday, January 21
  Introduction
  Suggested reading: Ch. 1 of Jurafsky and Martin
  Regular Expressions, Finite-State Automata, and Transducers
  Suggested reading: Ch. 2 and Sec. 3.4 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, January 23
  Regular Expressions, Finite-State Automata, and Transducers (continued)
• Monday, January 27
  Morphology
  Suggested reading: Ch. 3 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, January 30
  Morphology (continued)
• Monday, February 3
  N-Grams
  Suggested reading: Ch. 4 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, February 6
  Part-of-Speech Tagging
  Suggested reading: Ch. 5 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Monday, February 10
  Part-of-Speech Tagging (continued)
• Thursday, February 13
  Part-of-Speech Tagging (continued) Part-of-Speech Tagging (continued)
• Monday, February 24
  Information Retrieval and Text Categorization
  Suggested reading: Section 23.1 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, February 27
  Information Retrieval and Text Categorization (continued)
• Monday, March 3
  Project #1 assigned
  Question Answering and Summarization
  Suggested reading: Chapter 23 (other than Section 23.1) of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, March 6
  Question Answering and Summarization (continued)
• Monday, March 10
  Natural Language Grammars
  Suggested reading: Chapter 12 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, March 13
  Natural Language Grammars (continued)
• Monday, March 24
  Natural Language Grammars (continued)
• Thursday, March 27
  Parsing
  Suggested reading: Chapter 13 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Monday, March 31
  Parsing (continued)
  Project #2 assigned
• Thursday, April 3
  Probabilistic Parsing
  Suggested reading: Sections 14.1 - 14.6 and 14.10 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Monday, April 7
  Semantics
  Suggested reading: Chapter 17 and Sections 21.1 - 21.3 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, April 10
  Semantics (continued)
• Monday, April 14
  Lexical Semantics
  Suggested reading: Chapter 19 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, April 17
  Information Extraction
  Suggested reading: Chapter 22 and Sections 6.6 - 6.8 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Monday, April 21
  Information Extraction (continued)
• Thursday, April 24
  Information Extraction (continued)
• Monday, April 28
  Machine Translation
  Suggested reading: Chapter 25 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, May 1
  Machine Translation (continued)
• Monday, May 5
  FINAL EXAM
• Wednesday, May 14
  Project Presentations (Rm. 105, 10 am - 1 pm)