Schedule

LING 5801: Introduction to computational linguistics (CL1)
Autumn 2019

Tuesday-Thursday 9:35-10:55
Baker 285

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Office hours: Thursday 12:30-1:30 or by appointment
Oxley Hall, room 203

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
Morphology and regular languages
108/20 Introduction
08/22 Regular expressions
208/27 MorphologyJurafsky & Martin ch3 (2nd)
08/29 Finite state automata
309/03 Implementing FSAJurafsky & Martin ch2 (2nd)HW1
09/05 Regular languages
409/10 Rule-based vs. LearningJurafsky & Martin AppB (2nd)
Creutz & Lagus 2002
Ghazvininejad et al. 2016
09/12 Data files and projects
Program correctness and complexity
509/17CorrectnessHW1 due
09/19ComplexityHW2
Syntax and parsing
609/24SyntaxJurafsky & Martin ch12
09/26Context-free grammarsJurafsky & Martin ch13
710/01 Work on HW2 (Marie's away)
10/03 Class cancelled (Marie's away)HW2 due
810/08 Probabilistic parsingJurafsky & Martin ch14HW3
10/10 NO CLASS: AUTUMN BREAK
910/15Lexicalized parsing
10/17Dependency parsingJurafsky & Martin ch15
1010/22Dependency parsingde Lhoneux et al. 2017
10/24 Dependency parsingManning 2015
Probability models
1110/29Probability theoryManning & Schutze ch2.1HW3 due
10/31 Naive Bayes classifierJurafsky & Martin ch4
1211/05 Information theoryManning & Schutze ch2.2HW4
11/07 Evaluation
1311/12Sentiment analysisLinzen 2019
Lexical semantics
11/14
1411/19 Sentiment analysis
11/21 Thesaurus & distributional approachesJurafsky & Martin app CHW4 due
1511/26 Distributional approachesJurafsky & Martin ch6HW5
11/28 NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING
1612/03 Natural language inference