Week 1 |
INTRODUCTION: The NLP enterprise, from words to
meaning
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Reading in Textbook
or Notes
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W 02/05 |
Introduction,
Organization, Laboratories. Course Overview: Intro to NLP. Main Issues;
fsa's [pdf]
[4slides/page
for printing] For fun, try this link: postmodern. Reference
for
this generation program is here. |
pp.1-57; Notes 1
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Week 2 |
WORD MODELING: automata and linguistics
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pp. 58-90
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M 02/10 |
Linguistics:
Phonology and Morphology I.; 2-level morphology, Kimmo [pdf]
[2slides/page
for printing] Lab 1 intro:
processing words |
Notes 2
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W 02/12 |
Linguistics:
Phonology and Morphology II. [pdf]
[2slides/page
for printing] Lab 1b :
processing Spanish words |
pp. 287-321
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Week 3 |
WORD MODELING: statistical approaches & part of
speech tagging
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T 02/18 |
President's Day Class (MIT turns
Tuesday into Monday) OOPS SNOW DAY!! |
pp. 235-284
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W 02/19 |
HMM
Tagging; Statistical Transformation Rule-Based Tagging; Precision,
Recall, Accuracy
For fun (and learning) try this link
to an online Brill tagger here.
Note: Default tagging is for Swedish! Click
'English' and click tracing 'on' if you want to see how it works. |
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Week 4 |
LINGUISTICS & GRAMMARS; PARSING ALGORTHMS I
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Notes 3
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M 02/24 |
Part of
Speech Tagging: the Brill Tagger. Lab
1 due; Lab 2 handed out. |
pp. 357-394
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W 02/26 |
Introduction
to Parsing; Linguistics: Syntax & Parsing . |
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Week 5 |
PARSING ALGORITHMS II
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Notes 4
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M 03/03 |
Shift-Reduce
Parsers
in Detail. Earley's Algorithm and Chart Parsing |
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W 03/05 |
Context-free
Parsing
and Beyond: Efficiency Issues; Feature-based parsing; NL system
design Lab 2 due. |
pp. 477-498
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F 03/07 |
Add Date |
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Week 6 |
PARSING ALGORITHMS and the LEXICON
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M 03/10 |
Shift-Reduce
Parsers
in Detail. Earley's Algorithm and Chart Parsing Lab 3 handed out |
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W 03/12 |
Parsing
with an integrated lexicon - the question of syntactic features. |
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Week 7 |
SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION
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pp. 395-446;pp. 447-476
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M 03/17 |
Semantic
Interpretation I: compositionality |
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W 03/19 |
Semantic
Interpretation II: compositionality and quantifiers |
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3/24-3/28 |
No classes - Spring Break. Go to
someplace warm if you can.Lab 3 due
March 21, Lab 4 handed out March 22 |
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Week 8 |
FEATURE Parsing; TREE BANKS & PROBABILISTIC
PARSING
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Notes 5
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M 03/31 |
Semantics
III: Lexical Semantics |
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W 04/02 |
Semantics
IV: Lexical Semantics. |
pp. 501-544
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Week 9 |
SEMANTICS II
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M 04/07 |
Semantics
V: Constraint-based systems
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pp. 545-588
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W 04/09 |
Lab 4 due |
Week 10 |
MACHINE TRANSLATION I & II
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pp. 589-630
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M 04/14 |
Machine
Translation I |
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W 04/16 |
Machine
Translation II |
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Week 11 |
MACHINE TRANSLATION III
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M 04/21 |
No class - Patriot's Day.
Run the Boston Marathon if you can. |
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W 04/23 |
Machine
Translation III. "Enrichment"
Lab due (on or before) - CANCELLED |
pp. 631-666
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Th
04/24 |
Drop Date |
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Week 12 |
MACHINE TRANSLATION, IV
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Notes 6
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M 04/28 |
Project Discussion Day
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W 04/30 |
Machine
Translation IV
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pp. 799-830
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Week 13 |
LANGUAGE LEARNING
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M 05/05 |
Language
learning
I
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W 05/07 |
Language
learning
II
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Week 14 |
EVOLUTIONARY MODELS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING &
ORIGINS
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M 05/12 |
Computational Models of Language Change, I |
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W 05/14 |
Final project
due. Computational Models
of Language Change and the Origins of Language |
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