Natural Language Processing
Schedule for CS-5340/6340 (subject to change)
Fall Semester 2009

All readings are from the textbook unless otherwise specified.
DATE TOPIC READING
8/25 Introduction to and History of NLP Sections 1 & 2 (if necessary for background)
8/27 Syntax: the Basics Sections 5.1, 12.1-12.3, 16.1
9/1 Morphological Analysis Section 3, pp. 45-70
9/3 Rule-based POS Tagging Sections 5.2-5.4, 5.6
9/8 Probability; Language Models Sections 4.1-4.6
9/10 HMMs; HMM-based POS Tagging Sections 5.5, 6.3-6.4
9/15 Smoothing Section 6.1-6.2
9/17 Full vs. Partial Parsing; ATNs Sections 13.1-13.3, 13.5
9/22 Chart Parsing Section 13.4
9/24 Parsing cont'd  
9/29 Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars Sections 14.1-14.4, 14.7, 14.10
10/1 Named Entity Recognition Section 22.1
10/6 Coreference Resolution Sections 21.6-21.8
10/8 MIDTERM EXAM
10/13 FALL BREAK
10/15 FALL BREAK
10/20 Discourse and Pragmatics: The Basics Sections 21.3-21.5
10/22 Semantics: The Basics Sections 19.1-19.4
10/27 Semantics: The Basics (cont'd)  
10/29 Semantic Class Learning Section 20.8
11/3 Word Sense Disambiguation Sections 20.1-20.5
11/5 Conceptual Dependency Theory and Scripts Section 19.5
11/10 Applications: Information Extraction Section 22.4
11/12 Applications: Information Extraction  
11/17 Applications: Question Answering Section 23.2
11/19 Applications: Information Retrieval; Speech Recognition Sections 23.1, 9.1-9.2
11/24 Applications: Machine Translation Sections 25.1-25.3
11/26 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
12/1 Project Presentations
12/3 Project Presentations
12/8 Project Presentations
12/10 Guest Lecture: David Bean
12/17 FINAL EXAM (1:00-3:00pm)