6.863J/9.611J Calendar

The calendar presents the lecture topics, reading assignments, and laboratory project start and due dates. The reading assignments refer to the recommended textbook for the course, plus laboratory and lecture notes as well as additional background readings posted on this page.

Class days in blue, laboratory due dates/class days including final project in red, holidays in green, reg add/drop dates in bold.

      February                 March                April                  May      
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa     Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7         1  2  3  4  5  6               1  2  3                      1
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14      7  8  9 10 11 12 13   4  5  6  7  8  9 10    2  3  4  5  6  7  8
15 16 17 18 19 20 21     14 15 16 17 18 19 20  11 12 13 14 15 16 17    9 10 11 12 13 14 15
22 23 24 25 26 27 28     21 22 23 24 25 26 27  18 19 20 21 22 23 24   16 17 18 19 20 21 22
29                       28 29 30 31           25 26 27 28 29 30      23 24 25 26 27 28 29
                                                                      30 31

Readings:
B:        Berwick, R., Natural Language Processing: A Laboratory Approach. (Laboratory component notes)
JM:      Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing.
WR:   "Web Reading": Additional reading assignment material, posted on this page below.
S:        Lecture slides for the week in numerical order (available after lecture, in pdf, for viewing and printing)


WEEK #		MONDAY	WEDNESDAY	LAB ASSIGNMENTS & READINGS


1 Feb 1-7			Introduction: the NLP enterprise; word parsing	Laboratory 1a Out; Laboratory 1, Components I & II JM: pp. 1-55; B: WR: Notes 1; S1


2 Feb 8-14		Laboratory 1a Out; Laboratory 1, Components I & Lab Component II Word parsing & finite-state transducers: theory and practice;	Word parsing part II - complexity issues; Modern lexicon construction Laboratory 1a Due	Laboratory 1b Out B: Lab 1, Component III JM: 287-321(skim); WR: Notes 2; S2, S3


3 Feb 15-21		Statistical models of language; n-grams; part of speech tagging President's Day non-holiday (tuesday class)	Statistical models of language, continued Part of speech tagging	JM: pp. 235-284 (skim); S4, S5


4 Feb 22-28		Part of speech tagging; Brill tagger & others Laboratory 1b Due	Introduction to phrase structure parsing: linguistics & syntax	Laboratory 2 Out B: Lab 2, Components I, II, III JM: pp. 357-394; WR: Notes 3; S6, S7


5 Feb 29- Mar 6		Chart parsing; Earley algorithm in detail		JM 477-498 S8, S9


6 Mar 7-13		Earley algorithm & psycholinguistics Probabilistic parsing; Lab 2 due	Parsing with features and probabilities	Laboratory 3a,b Out B: Lab 3, Components I,II WR: Notes 4 S10, S11


7 Mar 14-21		Probabilistic parsing & feature-based parsing II	Integrated parsing systems: features to syntax Lab 3a due	Lab 3, Component III S12, S13
	SPRING BREAK - GO SOMEPLACE WARM!!

8 Mar 29 - Apr 3		Semantic interpretation; compositionality	Semantic interpretation and quantifiers Laboratory 3b due	Lab3b B: Lab 3b, Components I, II, III S14, S15


9 Apr 4-10		Semantic interpretation and lexical semantics	Lexical semantics	JM: 545-588 WR: Notes 5 S16, S17


10 Apr 11-17		Lexical semantics; word net	Discourse and semantics	S18, S19


11 Apr 18-24		Holiday (Patriot's Day - the SuperBowl Champs)	Discourse representation theory (DRT)	Laboratory 4 Out B: Lab 4, Components I, II, III S20


12 Apr 25 - May 1		DRT & Lexical Semantics I	Lexical Semantics II Laboratory 4 due	S21, S22


13 May 2-8		Translation I	Translation II	S23, S24


14 May 9-15		Translation III; Language Change & Evolution	Language Evolution Final Project Due	S25, S26