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The page numbers below refer to readings in the course textbook: Jurafsky, and Martin. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN: 0130950696.
| Week 1: Introduction: The NLP Enterprise, from Words to Meaning |
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Introduction, Organization, Laboratories, Course Overview: Introduction to NLP, Main Issues, fsa's |
pp. 1-57; Notes 1 (PDF) |
| Week 2: Word Modeling: Automata and Linguistics |
pp. 58-90 |
| 2 |
Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology I, 2-Level Morphology, Kimmo |
Notes 2 (PDF) |
| 3 |
Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology II |
pp. 287-321 |
| Week 3: Word Modeling: Statistical Approaches and Part of Speech Tagging |
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No lecture |
pp. 235-284 |
| 4 |
HMM Tagging, Statistical Transformation Rule-Based Tagging, Precision, Recall, Accuracy |
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| Week 4: Linguistics and Grammars; Parsing Algorithms I |
Notes 3 (PDF) |
| 5 |
Part of Speech Tagging: The Brill Tagger |
pp. 357-394 |
| 6 |
Introduction to Parsing, Linguistics: Syntax & Parsing |
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| Week 5: Parsing Algorithms II |
Notes 4 (PDF) |
| 7 |
Shift-Reduce Parsers in Detail, Earley's Algorithm and Chart Parsing |
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| 8 |
Context-Free Parsing and Beyond: Efficiency Issues, Feature-Based Parsing, NL System Design |
pp. 477-498 |
| Week 6: Parsing Algorithms and the Lexicon |
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| 9 |
Shift-Reduce Parsers in Detail, Earley's Algorithm and Chart Parsing |
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| 10 |
Parsing with an Integrated Lexicon - The Question of Syntactic Features |
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| Week 7: Semantic Interpretation |
pp. 395-446; pp. 447-476 |
| 11 |
Semantic Interpretation I: Compositionality |
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| 12 |
Semantic Interpretation II: Compositionality and Quantifiers |
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| Week 8: Feature Parsing; Tree Banks and Probabilistic Parsing |
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| 13 |
Semantics III: Lexical Semantics |
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| 14 |
Semantics IV: Lexical Semantics |
pp. 501-544 |
| Week 9: Semantics II |
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| 15 |
Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems |
pp. 545-588 |
| 16 |
Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems |
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| Week 10: Machine Translation I and II |
pp. 589-630 |
| 17 |
Machine Translation I |
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| 18 |
Machine Translation II |
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| Week 11: Machine Translation III |
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| 19 |
Machine Translation III |
pp. 631-666 |
| Week 12: Machine Translation IV |
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Project Discussion Day |
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| 20 |
Machine Translation IV |
pp. 799-830 |
| Week 13: Language Learning |
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| 21 |
Language Learning I |
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| 22 |
Language Learning II |
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| Week 14: Evolutionary Models of Language Learning and Origins |
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| 23 |
Computational Models of Language Change, I |
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| 24 |
Computational Models of Language Change and The Origins of Language |
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