| Date | Topic | Textbook Reading | Recent Papers Reading | Assignments |
| 9/15 |
(Text) Classification via Naive Bayes, Maximum Entropy and Neural Networks
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Mitchell Chapter 3
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Classification Tutorial,
MaxEnt Tutorial,
NN Primer,
Neural Network Tutorial
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Assignment 1 due,
Assignment 2 out
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| 9/22 |
Neural Networks continued;
Part-of-Speech Tagging |
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 5
(or Manning & Schuetze Chapter 10)
|
NN Guide,
TnT Tagger
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| 9/29 |
Advanced Part-of-Speech Tagging |
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 6
(or Manning & Schuetze Chapter 9)
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Merialdo '94,
CRFs,
Bilingual POS Induction
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Assignment 2 due,
Assignment 3 out
|
| 10/6 |
Dependency Parsing
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Dependency Parsing Chapters 1-4 (available from NYU network)
|
MST Parsing,
Vine Pruning,
Shift-Reduce Parsing,
NN Parsing,
|
|
| 10/13 |
Fall Break |
|
|
Assignment 3 due
|
| 10/20 |
Word Alignments |
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 25
(or Manning & Schuetze Chapter 13)
|
MT Tutorial,
Overview,
IBM Models,
HMM-Alignments,
Agreement
|
Assignment 4 out
|
| 10/27 |
Lexical Semantics |
Jurafsky & Martin Chapters 19, 20 |
Frege,
word2vec,
word2vec Explained,
Syntactic Embeddings,
NNs for NLP
|
Project Proposal due
|
| 11/3 |
Constituency Parsing |
Jurafsky & Martin Chapters 12, 13, 14
(or Manning & Schuetze Chapters 3, 11, 12),
|
Unlexicalized,
Lexicalized,
Latent Variable,
Neural
|
Assignment 4 due,
Assignment 5 out
|
| 11/10 |
Compositional Semantics |
Jurafsky & Martin Chapters 17, 18 |
Joint,
ILP for SRL
Framenet Parsing,
Compositional,
Question Answering
|
|
| 11/17 |
Sentiment Analysis, Summarization |
Pang & Lee Sentiment Analysis Book,
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 23.3 - 23.7
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Sentiment:
Aspects,
Lexicons,
Summarization
Summarization:
Query,
N-Gram,
Topical
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Assignment 5 due
|
| 11/24 |
Morphology and Neural Networks |
|
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| 12/1 |
Phrase-Based Translation
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Chapter 5&6 available online |
Decoding,
Phrases,
Moses
|
|
| 12/8 |
Hierarchical (Syntax-Based) Translation |
|
Hiero,
GHKM,
Synchronous Grammars,
BBN Neural Joint Models
|
|
| 12/15 |
Final Presentations |
|
How to (not) write a paper,
How to give a talk
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Project due 12/20 (at midnight)
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