Schedule

LING 5801: Introduction to computational linguistics (CL1)
Autumn 2015

Tuesday-Thursday 9:35-10:55
Hagerty Hall 046

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Office hours: by appointment
Ohio Stadium East, room 118E

Schedule
Readings and assignments can be found on Carmen.
Note that schedule is subject to change.
Homeworks that have to be turned in are due by class time (9:35) on their due date.
WeekDateTopicReadingHW
18/25 Class cancelled
8/27 Class cancelled
Morphology and regular languages
29/1 IntroductionUnix for poets
9/3 Regular expressions
39/8 MorphologyJurafsky & Martin ch3
9/10 Finite state automata
49/15 Implementing FSAJurafsky & Martin ch2HW1
9/17 Regular languages
59/22 Rule-based vs. LearningJurafsky & Martin AppB
Creutz & Lagus 2002
9/24 Data files and projectsHW1 due
Program correctness and complexity
69/29Correctness
10/1 ComplexityHW2
Syntax and parsing
710/6 SyntaxJurafsky & Martin ch9
10/8 Context-free grammarsJurafsky & Martin ch10
810/13Probabilistic parsingJurafsky & Martin ch12HW2 due
10/15 NO CLASS: AUTUMN BREAK
910/20 Lexicalized parsingHW3
10/22 Dependency parsing
1010/27Dependency parsing
Probability models
10/29 Probability theoryManning & Schutze ch2.1
1111/3 Naive Bayes classifierHW3 due
11/5 Information theoryManning & Schutze ch2.2HW4
1211/10Evaluation
Lexical semantics
11/12 Overview
1311/17 Thesaurus approachesJurafsky & Martin ch16
11/19 Distributional approachesTurney & Pantel 2010HW4 due
1411/24 Distributional approaches
11/26 NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING
1512/1 Implementing word vectors
12/3 Implementing word vectorsHW5
1612/8 Lexical similarity task