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 for each lecture will be posted after each class. You can also review the recorded lectures (not a substitute for coming to class).
Lexical Semantics
| Week | Date | Topic | Readings | Assignment |
| 1 | Jan. 11 | Course Introduction | Ch. 1 | |
| Jan. 13 | Regular expressions | Ch. 2 | ||
| 2 | Jan. 18 | English Morphology | Ch. 3 | |
| Jan. 20 | FSTs/Segmentation | Ch. 3 | ||
| 3 | Jan. 25 | Statistical Language Models | Ch. 4 | |
| Jan. 27 | cont. | Ch. 4 | ||
| 4 | Feb. 1 | POS tagging |
Ch. 5 | |
| Feb. 3 | cont. | Ch. 5 | ||
| 5 | Feb. 8 | HMMs |
Ch. 6 | |
| Feb. 10 | cont. | |||
| 6 | Feb. 15 | Midterm 1 |
Covers Chs. 1-6 |
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| Feb. 17 | Syntax and Grammars |
Ch. 12 | ||
| 7 | Feb. 22 | CFG-based Parsing | Ch. 13 | |
| Feb. 24 | cont. | |||
| 8 | Mar. 1 | cont. | ||
| Mar. 3 | Information Extraction | Ch. 22 |
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| 9 | Mar. 8 | cont. | ||
| Mar. 10 | Statistical Parsing | Ch. 14 | ||
| 10 | Mar. 15 | Semantics/Meaning Rep | Ch. 17 | |
| Mar. 17 | Compositional Semantics | Ch. 18 | ||
| 11 | Mar. 22 | Spring Break | ||
| Mar. 24 | Spring Break | |||
| 12 | Mar. 29 | cont. | ||
| Mar. 31 | Lexical Semantics |
Ch. 19 |
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| 13 | Apr. 5 | Computational Lexical Semantics |
Ch. 20 |
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| Apr. 7 | Midterm 2 | Covers Chs. 12-14, 17,18, and 22 | ||
| 14 | Apr. 12 | Text Classification/NB | IR Chapter 13 |
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| Apr. 14 | NB/text classification and EM | |||
| 15 | Apr. 19 | Machine Translation |
Ch. 25 | |
| Apr. 21 | cont. |
Ch. 25 | ||
| 16 | Apr. 26 | cont. | Ch. 25 | |
| Apr. 28 | Final Review/Wrapup | |||
| 17 | May 3 | Final Exam, 4:30 to 7:00; ECCS 1B28 |