Calendar

LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
Week 1: Introduction: The NLP Enterprise, from Words to Meaning
1 Introduction, Organization, Laboratories, Course Overview: Introduction to NLP, Main Issues, fsa’s

Week 2: Word Modeling: Automata and Linguistics
2 Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology I, 2-Level Morphology, Kimmo Lab 1a Out (Introduction: Processing Words)
3 Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology II Lab 1b Out (Processing Spanish Words)
Week 3: Word Modeling: Statistical Approaches and Part of Speech Tagging

No lecture

4 HMM Tagging, Statistical Transformation Rule-Based Tagging, Precision, Recall, Accuracy

Week 4: Linguistics and Grammars; Parsing Algorthms I
5 Part of Speech Tagging: The Brill Tagger Lab 1 Due
6 Introduction to Parsing, Linguistics: Syntax & Parsing

Week 5: Parsing Algorithms II
7 Shift-Reduce Parsers in Detail, Earley’s Algorithm and Chart Parsing

8 Context-Free Parsing and Beyond: Efficiency Issues, Feature-Based Parsing, NL System Design

Week 6: Parsing Algorithms and The Lexicon
9 Shift-Reduce Parsers in Detail, Earley’s Algorithm and Chart Parsing Lab 2 Out
10 Parsing With an Integrated Lexicon - The Question of Syntactic Features

Week 7: Semantic Interpretation
11 Semantic Interpretation I: Compositionality

12 Semantic Interpretation II: Compositionality and Quantifiers Lab 2 Due

Lab 3 Out

Week 8: Feature Parsing; Tree Banks and Probabilistic Parsing
13 Semantics III: Lexical Semantics

14 Semantics IV: Lexical Semantics

Week 9: Semantics II
15 Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems

16 Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems Lab 3 Due
Week 10: Machine Translation I and II
17 Machine Translation I

18 Machine Translation II

Week 11: Machine Translation III
19 Machine Translation III

Week 12: Machine Translation IV

Project Discussion Day

20 Machine Translation IV

Week 13: Language Learning
21 Language Learning I

22 Language Learning II

Week 14: Evolutionary Models of Language Learning and Origins
23 Computational Models of Language Change, I

24 Computational Models of Language Change and The Origins of Language Final Project Due