| Day | Date | Topic | Required Readings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 1/6 | Course Overview, Introduction to IE (slides) | |
| Wednesday | 1/8 | Syntactic Analysis: POS Tagging, Chunking, Parsing (slides) | Assumed Background (catch up if
needed) Jurafsky & Martin textbook: Ch. 5.1-5.4, 12.1-12.3, 13.1-13.3 |
| Monday | 1/13 | Intro. to ML, Annotation, Evaluation (slides) | |
| Wednesday | 1/15 | Sequential Labeling I (slides) | Jurafsky & Martin textbook: Ch. 6.1-6.4 |
| Monday | 1/20 | HOLIDAY: Martin Luther King Jr. Day | |
| Wednesday | 1/22 | Sequential Labeling II (slides) | Jurafsky & Martin textbook: Ch. 6.6-6.8 |
| Monday | 1/27 | Named Entity Recognition (slides) | Chieu & Ng, COLING02 |
| Wednesday | 1/29 | Semantic Lexicon Induction I (slides) | Thelen
& Riloff, EMNLP02 |
| Monday | 2/3 | Semantic Lexicon Induction II (slides) | McIntosh
& Curran, ACL09, |
| Wednesday | 2/5 | Using Negative Information for Semantic Class Learning (slides) | McIntosh, EMNLP10, Vyas & Pantel, NAACL09 |
| Monday | 2/10 | Semantic Class Acquisition from the Web (slides) | Hearst,
COLING92 Kozareva et al., ACL08 |
| Wednesday | 2/12 | Meronym Relations (slides) | Girju et al., HLT-NAACL03 |
| Monday | 2/17 | HOLIDAY: President's Day | |
| Wednesday | 2/19 | Relation Extraction I (slides) | Agichtein & Gravano, DL 2000 |
| Monday | 2/24 | Relation Extraction II (slides) | Mintz et al., ACL 2009 |
| Wednesday | 2/26 | Semantic Role Labeling I (slides) | FrameNet
Overview, Propbank & Verbnet |
| Monday | 3/3 | Semantic Role Labeling II (slides) | Gildea
and Jurafsky, ACL
2000 Also See: Gildea and Jurafsky, Computational Linguistics, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2002 |
| Wednesday | 3/5 | MIDTERM EXAM | |
| Monday | 3/10 | SPRING BREAK | |
| Wednesday | 3/12 | SPRING BREAK | |
| Monday | 3/17 | Paraphrasing/Inference Rules I (slides) | Lin & Pantel, KDD01 |
| Wednesday | 3/19 | Paraphrasing/Inference Rules II (slides) and Midterm Post-mortem | Bhagat et al., EMNLP07 |
| Monday | 3/24 | Event Extraction I (slides) | Huang & Riloff, AAAI12 |
| Wednesday | 3/26 | Event Extraction I (continued) | |
| Monday | 3/31 | Event Extraction II (slides) |
Ji & Grishman, ACL08, Liao & Grishman, ACL10 |
| Wednesday | 4/2 | Narrative Event Chains (slides) | Chambers & Jurafsky, ACL08 |
| Monday | 4/7 | Narrative Schemas (slides) | Chambers & Jurafsky, ACL09 |
| Wednesday | 4/9 | Large-Scale IE from the Web (slides) | Banko & Etzioni, ACL08 |
| Monday | 4/14 | Opinion Extraction I (slides) | Bethard et al., AAAISymp04 |
| Wednesday | 4/16 | Opinion Extraction II (slides) | Kobayashi et al., EMNLP07 |
| Monday | 4/21 | Project Presentations | |
| Wednesday | 4/23 | Project Presentations | |