Advanced Natural Language Processing

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction and Overview
2	Parsing and Syntax I
3	Smoothed Estimation, and Language Modeling
4	Parsing and Syntax II
5	The EM Algorithm
6	The EM Algorithm Part II
7	Lexical Similarity	Homework 1 due
8	Lexical Similarity (cont.)
9	Log-Linear Models
10	Tagging and History-based Models
11	Grammar Induction	Homework 2 due
12	Computational Modeling of Discourse
13	Text Segmentation
	Midterm
14	Local Coherence and Coreference	Homework 3 due
15	Machine Translation
16	Machine Translation (cont.)
17	Machine Translation (cont.)
18	Graph-based Methods for NLP Applications	Homework 4 due
19	Word Sense Disambiguation
20	Global Linear Models
21	Global Linear Models Part II	Homework 5 due
22	Dialogue Processing
23	Dialogue Processing (cont.)
24	Guest Lecture: Stephanie Seneff	Homework 6 due
25	Text Summarization
	Final Exam