Natural Language Processing Spring 2008 Schedule 

1 Jan. 15 Course Introduction Chs. 1&2  
Jan. 17 FSAs    
2 Jan. 22 English Morphology Ch. 3  
Jan. 24 FSTs    
3 Jan. 29 N-Gram Models Ch. 4 Assignment 1 due
Jan. 31 POS tagging Ch. 5  
4 Feb. 5 HMMs and MEMMs Ch. 6  
Feb. 7 cont.    
5 Feb. 12 QUIZ    
Feb. 14 Formal Grammars Ch. 12  
6 Feb. 19 Parsing Ch. 13  
Feb. 21 cont.    
7 Feb. 26 Statistical Parsing Ch. 14  
Feb. 28 cont.    
8 Mar. 4 Earley parsing Chapter 13  
Mar. 6 Partial Parsing Chapter 13  
9 Mar. 11 Statistical Parsing Ch. 14 Assignment 3
Mar. 13 cont.    
10 Mar. 18 Quiz  
Mar. 20 Semantics Chapter 17 Assignment 3 Due
11 Mar. 25 Spring Break    
Mar. 27 Spring Break    
12 Apr. 1 Computational Semantics Ch. 18 (18.1-18.3 and 18.6)  
Apr. 3 Word Sense Disambiguation Ch. 20 (20.1-20.5)  
13 Apr. 8 Information Extraction Ch. 22 (all)  
Apr. 10 Information Extraction    
14 Apr. 15 Discourse (Co-reference) Ch. 21 (21.3-21.8)  
Apr. 17 QUIZ.    
15 Apr. 22 QA and Summarization Ch. 23  
Apr. 24 Machine Translation Ch. 25  
16 Apr. 29 Machine Translation    
May 1 Final Review.