| Date | Subject | Assignment Due | Lecture |
| 1/25 | Lexical SMT | | [Scribe] |
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Readings:
Optional
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| 2/1 | Phrase-based SMT | |
[Scribe]
[slides]
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Readings:
Optional
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| 2/8 | Discriminative Methods | |
[Scribe]
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Readings:
Optional
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| 2/15 | Evaluation and the care and feeding of supervised methods | HW 1 |
[Scribe]
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Readings:
Optional:
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| 2/22 | Dependency Parsing: Transition-based models | |
[Scribe]
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Readings:
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| 2/29 | Dependency Parsing II: Arc-factored models | |
[Scribe]
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Optional (but encouraged):
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| 3/7 | Grammar Induction | |
[Scribe]
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Readings:
Optional: (Warning: these are pretty hairy math-wise, but good
for advanced concepts)
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| 3/14 | Information Theory and Hypothesis Testing | HW 2 |
[Scribe]
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Readings:
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| 3/21 | No class: Spring break! | |
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| 3/28 | Topic Modeling | Proposal |
[Slides]
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Readings:
Optional:
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| 4/4 | Midterm | |
[Sample] [PDF]
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| 4/11 | Semisupervised Learning and WSD | |
[Slides]
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Readings:
Optional:
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| 4/18 | Linguistic Universals | HW 3 |
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Readings:
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| 4/25 | Sentiment Analysis | Project Deliverable 1 |
[Scribe]
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Readings:
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| 5/2 | Reading, Writing, and Reviewing Papers | |
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Reading:
Writing:
Reviewing:
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| 5/9 | Project Presentations | Presentations |
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| 5/18 | All Course Materials Due | Final |
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