ECE 467: Natural Language Processing
Spring 2016
Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Rm. 104;
Thursdays 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Rm. 105
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
- Individual Programming
Project: 33 1/3%
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for corpora for Project #1
Project #1 is due before midnight the night of Thursdsay, March 24
- Open Ended Programming Project: 33 1/3%
- Final Exam: 33 1/3%
The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.
- Wednesday, January 20
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 21
Regular Expressions, Finite-State Automata, and Transducers
(continued)
- Wednesday, January 27
Regular Expressions, Finite-State Automata, and Transducers
(continued)
Morphology
Suggested reading: Ch. 3 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, January 28
Morphology (continued)
- Wednesday, February 3
Morphology (continued)
N-Grams
Suggested reading: Ch. 4 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, February 4
N-Grams (continued)
- Wednesday, February 10
Part-of-Speech Tagging
Suggested reading: Ch. 5 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, February 11
Part-of-Speech Tagging (continued)
- Wednesday, February 17
Part-of-Speech Tagging (continued)
- Thursday, February 18
Information Retrieval and Text Categorization
Suggested reading: Section 23.1 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Wednesday, February 24
Information Retrieval and Text Categorization (continued)
- Thursday, February 25
Project #1 assigned
- Wednesday, March 2
Question Answering and Summarization
Suggested reading: Chapter 23 (other than Section 23.1)
of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, March 3
Question Answering and Summarization (continued)
Natural Language Grammars
Suggested reading: Chapter 12 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Wednesday, March 9
Natural Language Grammars (continued)
- Thursday, March 10
Natural Language Grammars (continued)
- Wednesday, March 23
Natural Language Grammars (continued)
Parsing
Suggested reading: Chapter 13 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, March 24
Parsing (continued)
- Wednesday, March 30
Parsing (continued)
Probabilistic Parsing
Suggested reading: Sections 14.1 - 14.6 and 14.10
of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, March 31
Probabilistic Parsing (continued)
Project #2 assigned
- Wednedsay, April 6
Semantics
Suggested reading: Chapter 17 and Sections 21.1 - 21.3
of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, April 7
Semantics (continued)
- Wednesday, April 13
Lexical Semantics
Suggested reading: Chapter 19 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, April 14
Information Extraction
Suggested reading: Chapter 22 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Wednesday, April 20
Information Extraction (continued)
Machine Translation
Suggested reading: Chapter 25 of Jurafsky and Martin
- Thursday, April 21
Machine Learning (continued)
- Wednesday, April 27
FINAL EXAM
- Wednesday, May 11
Project Presentations (Rm. 104, 2 pm - 6 pm)