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• NOTE: Laboratories 5 and 6 ("Enrichment Project") are CANCELLED so that people can start work on their final team projects.
  
• Laboratory 4 on semantic interpretation is now posted here. Laboratory 4 was due April 9.  Laboratory 3's official due date was Friday, March 21, but can also be turned in Monday March 31.
• To repeat: for background, if you are unfamiliar with the terminology of describing sentence structure, like NP=Noun Phrase, and for an overall, but quick reference grammar for English, please read the pdf document here.
• Lecture 11 slides posted here and in 2-up bw format here.
• Lecture 10 slides posted here and in 2-up bw format here.
• Lecture 9 slides posted here and in 2-up bw format here.
• Extra documentation for the parser is here. It is also in the course locker, under /mit/6.863/earley/docnew.pdf
  
• Laboratory 3 now posted here. It is also in the course locker, under /mit/6.863/earley/lab3.pdf
  
• Lecture 8 slides posted here and in 2-up bw format here.
• If you are not getting email msgs posted to the class (several have been), please tell the TA so the list can be maintained.
• Add date is this Friday.
  
• Lecture 7 slides posted here and in 2-up bw format here.
• Lecture 6 slides posted here and in 2-up bw format here.
  
• Newly posted: notes3.pdf here (on context-free parsing) - there is extensive material here, so reading the notes is important now. Additional notes forthcoming.
• The 'sw*.*' files in Lab 2 are from the so-called 'switchboard' corpus, and as such have a few new tags, modified from the UPenn POS tags; see the change file here. You'll have to figure out for yourself how to 'deal' with this difference.
  
• For background, if you are unfamiliar with the terminology of describing sentence structure, like NP=Noun Phrase, and for an overall reference, but quick reference grammar for English, please read the pdf document here.
• Lecture 5 slides are posted here in full pdf format and here in grayscale 2slides/page for printing.
  
• Laboratory 2 is now posted in html format here. Please report any broken links, etc. to Karen Kohl.
  
• PLEASE NOTE that Lab 1 is due THIS WEDNESDAY, NOT monday as originally scheduled.  We will have lab time Monday 12-1 and Tues 11-2, as usual. I will endeavor to get lab 2 material posted so that people who have completed Lab 1 can begin Lab 2.  The tentative schedule is to have Lab 2, on tagging, due March 5th (it is not a long lab).
  
• I have updated the guide to writing automata rules, please read the whole document here.
  
• If you would like some guidance re building Kimmo lexicons and rules, please do read the guide on writing lexicons (.lex files) here, and a guide on writing automata (.rul files) here. 
• [Deprecated] PLEASE NOTE that Lab 1 is due THIS WEDNESDAY, NOT monday as originally scheduled.  We will have lab time Monday 12-1 and Tues 11-2, as usual. I will endeavor to get lab 2 material posted so that people who have completed Lab 1 can begin Lab 2.  The tentative schedule is to have Lab 2, on tagging, due March 5th (it is not a long lab).
  
• I have updated the guide to writing automata rules, please read the whole document here.
  
• If you would like some guidance re building Kimmo lexicons and rules, please do read the guide on writing lexicons (.lex files) here, and a guide on writing automata (.rul files) here.
• Lecture 4 slides are posted here in full pdf format and here in grayscale 2slides/page for printing.  Please do read them for Monday - I only got about half-way through! (There are a LOT of slides...)
• We WILL have laboratory time scheduled this week, both Weds. 12-1 and Thurs. 11-1 in room 14-0637. (Athena workstation setup near Hayden Library) NB, capacity is 17 seats.
• Lecture 3 slides are posted here in full pdf format and here in grayscale 2slides/page for printing.
• Lab 1b is now posted here.
• Note change in due date for Lab1a & 1b to Feb 24
• Lecture 2 slides are posted here in full pdf format and here in grayscale 2slides/page for printing.
• Lab 1a posted here.
• Note that the Stellar website requires a browser that handles MIT certificates - i.e.,  Netscape Navigator.  (Yes, I don't like this either)
• Lecture 1 slides are posted here in full pdf format and here in 4 slides/page for printing.  Please do read to the end - I didn't cover all the material that is included in these slides.
• Textbook Availability:

Jurafsky, the main text, is currently available at Quantum Books; there are 16 copies in stock.  Following tradition, the MIT Coop has backordered this text, and should be getting it in by the second week of February. You may also order it from Amazon, etc.  In the meantime, you can read my Notes 1 and Notes 2, especially Notes 2, which covers most of the same material.
• Please  fill out this background questionnaire and email  back to ktkohl@ai.mit.edu
• Note to non-MIT students (and perhaps even some MIT students):

I know. MIT wants to treat you like second-class citizens. In order to use the Athena computers for this course, and also (eventually) the Stellar website for MIT courses, you must two things. Getting a Stellar account is easier, via the links referred to below (Stellar is part of MIT's effort to open its courses to everyone.) When you get your stellar account, you can go to the Stellar course website via this link: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/sp03/6.863j/.
The Stellar request form for all students:  http://stellar.mit.edu/contact/userrequest.html. If you are an MIT registered student, this should already be set up; just try the course link above.   I will maintain both websites - the one you are reading now - and the Stellar one, at least for several weeks.
If you are a non-MIT student, to get an Athena account, you must go to the Athena Accounts office, in building N42-140, see map here.  Their office hours are  M, W, F 2:00pm - 5:00pm and T, Th 9:00am - 12:00pm., phone (617) 253-1325, email  here. If you have any problems with either, please see Karen Kohl.