Natural Language and the Computer Representation of Knowledge

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