Winter 2013 (Jan7-Apr8)
Faculty of Computer Science
Dalhousie University
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Winter 2013 (Jan7-Apr8) Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University |
| # | Date | Title | |
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| 1 | Mo Jan 7 | Course Introduction Reading: [JM] Ch.1 | |
| 2 | We Jan 9 | Introduction to NLP | A0 out |
| L1 | Wed Jan 9 | Perl Tutorial 1 | |
| Part I: Linguistic Background | |||
| 3 | Fri Jan 11 | Words and Morphology Reading: [JM] Sec 3.1; 5.1-5.3 | A1 out |
| 4 | Mon Jan 14 | Parts of Speech | |
| 5 | Wed Jan 16 | Syntax Reading: [JM] Ch 12 | A0 due |
| L2 | Wed Jan 16 | Perl Tutorial 2 | |
| 6 | Fri Jan 18 | Typical Syntactic Rules | A1 due, A2 out |
| 7 | Mon Jan 21 | Semantics Reading: [JM] Ch 17-17.2 (Representation of meaning), 18.6 (Idioms and Compositionality), 19-19.3 (Lexical Semantics and WordNet). | |
| Part II: Statistical Approach to NLP | |||
| 8 | Wed Jan 23 | Vector Space Model Reading: [JM] 23.1 (Information Retrieval), [MS] Ch.15 (Topics in Information Retrieval). | |
| L3 | Wed Jan 23 | Perl Tutorial 3 | |
| 9 | Fri Jan 25 | Text Mining Evaluation Measures Reading: [MS] Ch. 16 (Text Categorization), [JM] 14.7 (page 479, Evaluating parsers) | A2 due, A3 out |
| 10 | Mon Jan 28 | Text Classification | |
| 11 | Wed Jan 30 | CNG Classification, Probabilistic Modeling | |
| Fri Feb 1 | Munro Day, University closed, no class | ||
| 12 | Mon Feb 4 | Probabilistic Modelling | P0 due |
| 13 | Wed Feb 6 | Guest Speaker (LeadSift) | A3 due, A4 out |
| 14 | Wed Feb 6 | Naive Bayes model | |
| 15 | Fri Feb 8 | P0 Projects discussion (part 1) | |
| 16 | Mon Feb 11 | P0 Project discussion (part 2), N-gram model | |
| 17 | Wed Feb 13 | N-gram model Reading: [JM] Ch 4 | |
| 18 | Wed Feb 13 | Hidden Markov Model Reading: [JM] Sec. 5.5 (HMM POS Tagging) | |
| 19 | Fri Feb 15 | Bayesian Networks | |
| 20 | Mon Feb 18 | Sum-product Algorithms | A4 due |
| 21 | Wed Feb 20 | Sum-product Algorithms Example 1 | |
| L4 | Wed Feb 13 | SVN Tutorial | |
| 22 | Fri Feb 22 | Sum-produce Algorithm Example 2, PCFGs Reading: [JM] Chapters 13 and 14 (PCFG). | |
| Mon Feb 25 | Study break Mon-Sun, Feb 25-Mar 3 | P1 due | |
| 23 | Mon Mar 4 | CYK Parsing | |
| 24 | Wed Mar 6 | Probabilistic CYK Parsing | |
| Part III: Unification-based approach to NLP | |||
| 25 | Fri Mar 8 | First-order Predicate Logic and Resolution Reading: [JM] 17.3 (First-order Logic) | A5 out |
| 26 | Mon Mar 11 | Classical Unification | |
| 27 | Wed Mar 13 | Unification using Graph Representation | |
| L6 | Wed Mar 13 | Prolog Tutorial 1 | |
| 28 | Fri Mar 15 | DCG -- Definite Clause Grammars | A5 due |
| 29 | Mon Mar 18 | Student presentation (15*), Feature Structures Reading: [JM] chapter 15 (Features and Unification) | |
| Wed Mar 20 | No class | ||
| 30 | Fri Mar 22 | Student presentation (14*), Feature Structure Unification | A6 out |
| 31 | Mon Mar 25 | Unification-based Grammar Example | |
| Part IV: Course review | |||
| 32 | Wed Mar 27 | Course Review | |
| 33 | Wed Mar 27 | Course Review, Chart Parsing | |
| Fri Mar 29 | Good Friday, University closed, no class | ||
| Part V: Student Presentations | |||
| 34 | Mon Apr 1 | Student presentation (13*), Types and Appropriateness | A6 due |
| 35 | Wed Apr 3 | Student presentations (10*,11*,9*) | |
| 36 | Wed Apr 3 | (LAB) Student presentations (7*,8*,12*) | |
| 37 | Fri Apr 5 | Student presentations (4*,5*,6*) | |
| 38 | Mon Apr 8 | Student presentations (1*,2*,3*) | Reports due |
| Th Apr 11 | Final Exam (8:30-10:30, CS 127, Auditorium) | Exam | |