Lecture notes

• January 29: Intro
• Slides for lecture 1 by Bonnie Dorr [PS | PDF]
• February 5: Stat NLP Overview
• Slides for lecture 2 by Rebecca Hwa [PPT | PDF]

NB: PDF version has problem with some equations
• February 12: MT Survey
• Slides for lecture on MT Survey paper by Bonnie Dorr [PS|PDF]
• February 19: Parsing
• Slides for lecture on parsing papers by Rebecca Hwa [PPT|PDF]
• February 26: EM and Grammar Induction
• Slides for lecture on EM by Mona Diab and Adam Lopez [PPT | PDF]
• March 05: Syntax-Semantics Interface
• Slides for lecture on Syntax-Semantics Interface by Kyoung Hwa Kwon and David Zajic [PPT]
• March 12: Clustering
• Slides for PTL93 by Rebecca Hwa [PPT|PDF]

Thanks to Lillian Lee for helpful discussions and for letting me use her talk slides as references
NB: eq's aren't displayed quite right in pdf.
• March 19: WSD
• Slides for WSD Part One by Guy Divita and Stephan Greene [PPT]
• Slides for WSD Part Two by Guy Divita and Stephan Greene [PPT]
• March 26: Vacation.
• April 02: Guest Lecture:
• Nizar Habash
• April 16: MT Model
• Slides for MT Model by Grazia Russo-Lassner and Calandra Tate [PPT]
• April 23: Word Alignment and dependency models
• Slides for the Wu paper(s) by Adam Lopez [PDF]
• April 30: Guest Lecture:
• Philip Resnik,
• May 07: IR:
• May 14: Bootstrapping from multilingual resources
• Slides on Yarowsky and Ngai by Clara Cabezas [PPT]
• Slides on Hwa, Resnik, Weinberg, and Kolak by Okan Kolak[PPT]
• Slides on Dorr, Pearl, Hwa, and Habash by Bonnie Dorr and Okan Kolak [PPT]