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 25
• Open-Ended Programming Project: 33 1/3%
• Final Exam: 33 1/3%

Schedule

The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.

• Wednesday, January 17
  Introduction
  Suggested reading: Ch. 1 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, January 18
  Introduction (continued)
  Regular Expressions, Finite-State Automata, and Transducers
  Suggested reading: Ch. 2 and Sec. 3.4 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, January 24
  Regular Expressions, Finite-State Automata, and Transducers (continued)
• Thursday, January 25
  Regular Expressions, Finite-State Automata, and Transducers (continued)
  Morphology
  Suggested reading: Ch. 3 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, January 31
  Morphology (continued)
• Thursday, February 1
  Morphology (continued)
  N-Grams
  Suggested reading: Ch. 4 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, February 7
  NO CLASS DUE TO INAUGURATION ACTIVITIES
• Thursday, February 8
  N-Grams (continued)
  Part-of-Speech Tagging
  Suggested reading: Ch. 5 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, February 14
  Part-of-Speech Tagging (continued)
• Thursday, February 15
  Part-of-Speech Tagging (continued)
• Wednesday, February 21
  Information Retrieval and Text Categorization
  Suggested reading: Section 23.1 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, February 22
  Information Retrieval and Text Categorization (continued)
• Wednesday, February 28
  Information Retrieval and Text Categorization (continued)
• Thursday, March 1
  Information Retrieval and Text Categorization (continued)
  Project #1 assigned
• Wednesday, March 7
  Natural Language Grammars
  Suggested reading: Chapter 12 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, March 8
  Natural Language Grammars (continued)
• Wednesday, March 21
  COOPER CLOSED DUE TO STORM
• Thursday, March 22
  Natural Language Grammars (continued)
• Wednesday, March 28
  Parsing
  Suggested reading: Chapter 13 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, March 29
  Parsing (continued)
  Project #2 assigned
  Probabilistic Parsing
  Suggested reading: Sections 14.1 - 14.6 and 14.10 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, April 4
  Probabilistic Parsing (continued)
• Thursday, April 5
  Semantics
  Suggested reading: Chapter 17 and Sections 21.1 - 21.3 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednedsay, April 11
  Semantics (continued)
• Thursday, April 12
  Lexical Semantics
  Suggested reading: Chapter 19 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, April 18
  Word Embeddings
  Suggested reading: Chapters 8 and 16 from on-line version of 3rd Edition of Jurafsky and Martin
• Thursday, April 19
  Word Embeddings (continued)
  Machine Translation
  Suggested reading: Chapter 25 of Jurafsky and Martin
• Wednesday, April 25
  Machine Translation (continued)
• Thursday, April 26
  FINAL EXAM
• Wednesday, May 2
  PROJECT DEMOS
• Thursday, May 3
  PROJECT DEMOS