| Day | Date | Topic | Required Readings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday | 8/21 | Introduction to NLP (slides) | Ch. 1 & 2, for fun |
| Thursday | 8/23 | Syntax: The Basics (slides) | Ch. 5.1, 12.1-12.3, 16.1, for fun |
| Tuesday | 8/28 | Morphological Analysis, Part-of-Speech Tagging (slides) | Ch. 3 (pp. 45-70), Ch. 5.2-5.4, for fun |
| Thursday | 8/30 | Morphology and POS Tagging cont'd | for fun |
| Tuesday | 9/4 | Parsing as Search, Recursive Transition Networks, Partial Parsing (slides) | Ch. 13.1-13.3, 13.5, for fun |
| Thursday | 9/6 | Chart Parsing (slides) | Ch. 13.4, for fun |
| Tuesday | 9/11 | Intro. to Probability, N-gram Language Models (slides) | Ch. 4.1-4.4 for fun |
| Thursday | 9/13 | N-gram Language Models (cont'd) | |
| Tuesday | 9/18 | HMM-based POS Tagging (slides) | Ch. 4.5.1, 5.5, 6.1-6.4, for fun |
| Thursday | 9/20 | Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars (slides) | Ch. 14.1-14.4, 14.7, 14.10 |
| Tuesday | 9/25 | Machine Learning for NLP
(slides); Named Entity Recognition (slides) | Ch. 22.1, for fun |
| Thursday | 9/27 | Named Entity Recognition (bootstrapping example) | |
| Tuesday | 10/2 | Semantics: The Basics (slides) | Ch. 19.1-19.4, for fun |
| Thursday | 10/4 | MIDTERM EXAM | |
| Tuesday | 10/9 | FALL BREAK | |
| Thursday | 10/11 | FALL BREAK | |
| Tuesday | 10/16 | Coreference Resolution (slides) | Ch. 21.6-21.8 for fun |
| Thursday | 10/18 | Semantics: The Basics (cont'd) | |
| Tuesday | 10/23 | Semantic Class Induction (slides) | Basilisk paper, for fun |
| Thursday | 10/25 | Distributional Similarity (slides) | Ch. 20.7, for fun |
| Tuesday | 10/30 | Word Sense Disambiguation (slides) | Ch. 20.1-20.5, for fun |
| Thursday | 11/1 | Discourse and Pragmatics (slides) | Ch. 21.3-21.5, for fun |
| Tuesday | 11/6 | Conceptual Dependency Theory and Scripts (slides) | Ch. 19.5, for fun |
| Thursday | 11/8 | Event Extraction (slides) | Ch. 22.4 |
| Tuesday | 11/13 | Information Retrieval (slides) | Ch. 23.1, for fun |
| Thursday | 11/15 | Question Answering (slides) | Ch. 23.2, for fun |
| Tuesday | 11/20 | Machine Translation (slides) | Ch. 25.1-25.3, for fun |
| Thursday | 11/22 | THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY | |
| Tuesday | 11/27 | Spoken Language Understanding (slides) | Ch. 9.1-9.2, for fun |
| Thursday | 11/29 | Project Presentations | |
| Tuesday | 12/4 | Project Presentations | |
| Thursday | 12/6 | Project Presentations | |
| Tuesday | 12/11 | FINAL EXAM: 1:00-3:00, MEB 3105 | |
