Subject to change. Hand in homeworks and projects here.
| Date | Topics | Readings | Due before class |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tu Sep 1 | Introduction to Computational Linguistics | ||
| Th Sep 3 | Morphology, finite state transducers | 2-2.2; 3-3.4; Syllabus | |
| Tu Sep 8 | Language modeling, n-grams, smoothing | 4-4.2, 4.4-4.5 | HW1 |
| Th Sep 10 | Noisy channel models, automatic morphological disambiguation | 3.5 3.9 | |
| Tu Sep 15 | Supervised classification, perceptron, logistic regression | HW2 (Sep 15 is Rosh Hashana; you may turn in HW2 on Sep 16 with no late penalty) | |
| Th Sep 17 | P1 lab | ||
| Tu Sep 22 | Neural Networks | CIML chap 8 (Optional: Chap 3 & 6 for more background, or Bengio et al. 2005 for neural nets experts) | |
| Th Sep 24 | Neural Language Models | ||
| Tu Sep 29 | Part of Speech tagging, Hidden Markov Models | 5.1-5.5 | P1,HW3 |
| Th Oct 1 | Hidden Markov Models, Structured perceptron | 6.2-6.4 (Optional: Collins 2002) | |
| Tu Oct 6 | Syntax and Grammars | 12.1,12.2,12.7 | HW4 |
| Th Oct 8 | Dependency parsing | (Optional: Dependency parsing book) | |
| Tu Oct 13 | Dependency parsing: Transition-based | HW5 | |
| Th Oct 15 | Midterm | ||
| Tu Oct 20 | Dependency parsing: Graph-based | HW6 | |
| Th Oct 22 | Constituency parsing | 13.1-13.4, 14.1-14.6 | |
| Tu Oct 27 | Introduction to Semantics | 17.1 | HW7 |
| Th Oct 29 | P2 lab | ||
| Tu Nov 3 | Computational Semantics & Compositionality | 18.1-18.2, 18.6 | HW8 |
| Th Nov 5 | Lexical semantics: word senses, word relations | 19.1-19.3 | |
| Tu Nov 10 | Word Similarity & Distributional Semantics | HW9 | |
| Th Nov 12 | P2 | ||
| Tu Nov 17 | Recent Work in Distributional Semantics | (Optional: see links in slides) | P2 |
| Th Nov 19 | Semantic Roles & Multiword Expressions | 20.9 | |
| Tu Nov 24 | Wrap-up Semantics & P3 | HW10 | |
| Th Nov 26 | No class -- Happy thanksgiving! | ||
| Tu Dec 1 | Machine Translation I | ||
| Th Dec 3 | Deep Learning for Question Answering | ||
| Tu Dec 8 | Machine Translation II | ||
| Th Dec 10 | Wrap-up and final review | P3 (Submit by Dec 11, 2pm) | |
| Th Dec 17 | Final exam (10:30am-12:30pm) |