6.863J/9.611J Laboratory Assignments

Below is a tentative schedule of laboratory assignments for the course. Note that each laboratory will generally consist of (1) a set of background readings on the computational and linguistic theory behind the assignment; (2) a set of 'warm-up' preparatory exercises to gain familiarity with the software and the assignment domain, perhaps including some non-computer problems; and (3) the main assignment itself, which will be computer-based. Instructions for using the software for each laboratory will be provided.


No.	DATE OUT	DATE DUE	Task	Resource
1a	Feb 09	Feb 17	Word Parsing - warmup	Kimmo finite-state morphological system, pykimmo & pckimmo
1b	Feb 11	Feb 23	Word Parsing - handling a new language	As above
2a	Feb 23	Mar 08	Word Tagging & Statistical Models of language	Ngram package; Brill statistical tagger; HMM tagger
2b	Mar 01	Mar 10	Word Tagging & Statistical Models of language	Ngram package; Brill statistical tagger; HMM tagger
3a	Mar 8	Mar 19	Phrase Parsing - CFG introduction	Python earley parser
3b	Mar 27	Apr 12	Phrase Parsing - complex language	Python earley parser
4	Apri 22	Apr 30	Semantic Interpretation Part I	Lambda calculus semantic evaluator; Wordnet
#6		May 12	Final Project

      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                     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

Assignment Specifics:

Laboratory 1 - Word parsing & morphology

Laboratory 1a - Warmup Exercises with Kimmo

Laboratory 1b - Word parsing and Spanish

Laboratory 2 - Word tagging & statistical models of language

Laboratory 2a - Ngrams & Tagging

Laboratory 2b - Evaluating Taggers

Laboratory 3 - Phrase structure parsing

Laboratory 3a - Phrase structure parsing warmup

Laboratory 3b - Phrase structure parsing - writing grammar rules

Laboratory 4 - Semantic interpretation

Laboratory 5 - Word meaning & Machine translation
Laboratory 6 - Final project