The bulk of the readings will be from Speech and Language Processing, additional readings from journals and conferences will be posted here. Please complete the listed readings prior to coming to class.
The slides (powerpoint and pdf) for each lecture will be posted after each class. You can also view the recorded lectures just like the remote students.
| Week | Date | Topic | Readings | Assignment |
| 1 | Jan. 13 | Course Introduction | Ch. 1 | |
| Jan. 15 | Regular expressions | Ch. 2 | ||
| 2 | Jan. 20 | English Morphology | Ch. 3 | |
| Jan. 22 | FSTs | Ch. 3 | ||
| 3 | Jan. 27 | Segmentation | Ch. 3 | |
| Jan. 29 | Language models | Ch. 4 | Assignment 1 | |
| 4 | Feb. 3 | Language models | Ch. 4 | |
| Feb. 5 | POS tagging | Ch. 5 | ||
| 5 | Feb. 10 | POS tagging/HMMs | Ch. 5 | |
| Feb. 12 | Quiz 1 | Covers Chs. 1-5 | ||
| 6 | Feb. 17 | HMMs and MEMMs | Ch. 6 | |
| Feb. 19 | cont. | Ch. 6 | ||
| 7 | Feb. 24 | Formal Grammars | Ch. 12 | |
| Feb. 26 | Parsing | Ch. 13 | ||
| 8 | Mar. 3 | Parsing cont. | Ch. 13 | |
| Mar. 5 | Parsing cont. | Ch. 13 | ||
| 9 | Mar. 10 | Statistical Parsing | Ch. 14 | |
| Mar. 12 | Statistical Parsing cont. | Ch. 14 | ||
| 10 | Mar. 17 | Quiz 2 | Covers Chs. 6, 12-14 | |
| Mar. 19 | Computational Semantics | Chapter 17 | ||
| 11 | Mar. 24 | Spring Break | ||
| Mar. 26 | Spring Break | |||
| 12 | Mar. 31 | Computational Semantics | Ch. 18 | |
| Apr. 2 | Computational Lexical Semantics | Chs. 19 and 20 | ||
| 13 | Apr. 7 | Information Extraction | Ch. 22 | |
| Apr. 9 | IE cont./Sentiment | Ch. 22 | ||
| 14 | Apr. 14 | Question Answering | Ch. 23, P&L | |
| Apr. 16 | Summarization | Ch. 23 | Assignment 2 Extra Credit |
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| 15 | Apr. 21 | Quiz 3 | Covers Chs. 17-20, 22, 23 | |
| Apr. 23 | Machine Translation | Ch. 25 | ||
| 16 | Apr. 28 | Machine Translation cont. | Ch. 25 | |
| Apr 30 | Final Review | |||
| 17 | May 4 | Final Exam, 1:30 to 4:00; ECCS 1B12 |