CS 5340/6340

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)