Natural Language Processing

CSCI-GA.2590
Spring 2013
Tuesday 5:00-6:50
202 Warren Weaver Hall

Instructor

Prof. Ralph Grishman
715 Broadway, Room 703
phone: 998-3497
email: grishman@cs.nyu.edu
Spring office hours: Tuedays, 2:30-3:30 PM

Course schedule (including assignments)

Textbook:

Speech and Language Processing, Daniel Jurafsky and James Martin, Prentice-Hall, Second edition, 2009

Assignments and Grading

8 weekly assignments, worth a total of 40 points (4-6 points each). A combination of written exercises and computer exercises (using parsers, modifying grammars, etc.). Each homework is due by midnight 1 week after being assigned. There is a 1 point penalty for each week or part thereof that an assignment is late. Assignments may be submitted by email to xiangli@cs.nyu.edu (Xiang Li) and to grishman@cs.nyu.edu. Assignments will also be accepted in hard copy in class.

A term project, worth 30 points. There are a wide range of possibilities, including both computer implementations and research papers. The central application for the course will be information extraction, and so information extraction systems will provide natural course projects. Examples of possible term projects will be presented in mid-semester. The term project is due at the last class meeting. You should plan your project well in advance, particularly for more ambitious efforts.

A final examination, worth 30 points.

Class Web site (this page)

www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring13/CSCI-GA.2590-001/index.html

Class Mailing List

csci_ga_2590_001_sp13@cs.nyu.edu

To join this list, go to www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/csci_ga_2590_001_sp13 (note that students registered by Jan. 25 are automatically added to the list)

Other Books and Notes of Interest

Natural Language Processing with Python by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper. O'Reilly, 2009. Available online.

Information Extraction: Capabilities and Challenges by Ralph Grishman. Available online.

Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schutze, MIT Press, 1999.

Natural Language Understanding, James Allen (Benjamin / Cummings), Second Edition, 1995.

Computational Linguistics: An Introduction, Ralph Grishman, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986.

Proteus Project (NYU research in natural language processing)

Research Sources

Journals: Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Engineering

Conferences:

meetings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), including ACL Conferences, European ACL Conferences (EACL), and North American ACL Conferences (NAACL)
International Conferences on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
Language Resource and Evaluation Conferences (LREC)

Computational Linguistics and ACL and COLING Conferences and workshops are available on-line through the ACL Anthology.