| Date of Class | Topic | Readings* | Assignments | Lecture Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1 | Lecture 1: Overview of the field; Intro to Machine Translation (Dorr) | Ch 1, 21 | - | Lecture 1: ppt pdf 6-up |
| Sep 8 | Lecture 2: MT continued, MT Evaluation (Dorr), Finite State Automata, Regular Expressions (Monz) | Ch 2 | Assignment 1 (due Sep 22, 11:59pm) |
Lecture 2, Part 1: ppt
pdf 6-up Lecture 2, Part 2: ppt pdf 6-up |
| Sep 15 | Lecture 3: More about Finite State Automata, Finite State Morphology (Dorr) | Ch 3 | - | Lecture 3: ppt pdf 6-up |
| Sep 22 | Lecture 4: Finite State Morphology (cont), Intro to Kimmo (Dorr) | - | Project 1(due Oct 13, 11:59pm) |
Lecture 4: Kimmo Supplement ppt pdf 6-up |
| Sep 29 | Lecture 5: Porter Stemmer, Kimmo FAQ, Noisy Channel Model (Dorr) | Ch 5 | - | Kimmo FAQ: ppt pdf 6-up; Lecture 5: ppt pdf 6-up |
| Oct 6 | Lecture 6: Noisy Channel Model (cont), N-grams (Dorr), Smoothing (Monz) | Ch 6 | - | Lecture 6: ppt, pdf 6-up |
| Oct 13 | Lecture 7: HMMs, noisy channel model (Monz) and Midterm Review (Dorr) | Ch 7, Rabiner's tutorial on HMMs (read pages 257-266 up to, but not including, section IV) | Study! | Lecture 7: ppt, pdf 4-up; Midterm Review: Study Guide, Worksheet |
| Oct 20 | Mid-term exam | none | Relax! | none |
| Oct 27 | Lecture 8: Statistical MT (Monz) | Kevin Knight's SMT tutorial | Assignment 2 (due Nov 17, 11:59pm) |
Lecture 8: ppt pdf 4-up; Policies and Grades ppt, pdf 4-up |
| Nov 3 | Lecture 9: POS Tagging (Dorr) | Ch 8, 9 | - | Lecture 9: ppt, pdf 6-up |
| Nov 10 | Lecture 10: CFG (Dorr) | Ch 10 | Project 2 (due Dec 8, 11:59pm) |
Lecture 10: ppt, pdf 6-up |
| Nov 17 | Lecture 11: Parsing (Dorr); Guest Lecture: Entity Extraction, Ian Hersey, Inxight | Ch 14, 16 | - | Lecture 11: ppt, pdf 6-up |
| Nov 24 | Semantics and Meaning (Monz) | Ch 14, 16 | - | Lecture 12: Semantics (Monz) ppt, pdf 4-up |
| Dec 1 | Applications I: IR and NLP (Monz) | Ch 17 | - | Lecture 13: Information Retrieval (Monz): pdf 4-up, FINAL REVIEW WORKSHEET: .doc, PDF |
| Dec 8 | Applications II: Guest lecture: IR and QA (Jimmy Lin); and Review Session (Dorr) | - | Study! | Lecture 14 (Lin): ppt, pdf 6-up |
| Dec 15 | Final Exam | - | - | - |