cs 533: Natural Language
 
  1. •January 19: Introduction.  Read J&M, Chapter 1.  Lecture Notes.  Video Part One, Part Two.   Here are the two pedagogical examples from Slides 24 and 25: (1) wwnlp0.pl and wwdcg0.pl, and (2) wwnlp1.pl and wwdcg1.pl.  Both systems require the auxiliary file: read_in.pl.  For illustrative interactions with these systems, take a look at wwdcg0.txt and wwdcg1.txt.
  2. •January 26: REs/FSAs and (English) Morphology.  Read J&M, Chapters 2 and 3.  Lecture Notes.  Video Part One, Part Two.  
  3. •February 2: N-Gram Models and Algorithms.  Read J&M, Chapter 4.  Lecture Notes.  Video Part One, Part Two.  
  4. •February 9: Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging.  Read J&M, Chapter 5.  Lecture Notes.  Video Part One, Part Two.
  5. •February 16: Hidden Markov and Maximum Entropy Models.  Read J&M, Chapter 6.  Lecture Notes.  Video Part One, Part Two.
  6. •February 23:  Context-Free Grammars and Parsing.  Read J&M, Chapters 12 and 13.  Lecture Notes.  Video Part One, Part Two.
  7. •March 2:  Statistical Parsing.  Read J&M, Chapter 14, and this article by Michael Collins. Lecture Notes.  Video Part One, Part Two.  Here is the parse tree for our sample legal sentence.
  8. •March 9:  Computational Semantics.  Read J&M, Chapters 17 and 18, and this excerpt from Pereira and Shieber.  Lecture Notes.  Video Part One, Part Two.  Here is the semantic interpretation for our sample legal sentence.  
  9. •March 16:  Spring Break!
  10. •March 23:  Lexical Semantics.  Read J&M, Chapters 19 and 20.  Lecture Notes.  Video Part One, Part Two.
  11. •March 30:  Discourse Pragmatics.  Read J&M, Chapter 21.  Lecture Notes.  Video Part One, Part Two.
  12. •April 6:  Student Presentations.  Video Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five.
  13. •April 13:  Student Presentations.  Video Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five.
  14. •April 20:  Student Presentations.  Video Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five.
  15. •April 27:  Student Presentations.  Video Part One, Part Three, Part Four.  
lectures: Thanks to the efforts of Sergio de Biasi, videos of the lectures this semester will be made available on vimeo (password required). Links to the individual lecture videos will be provided (along with links to the lecture notes) in the schedule below.http://www.vimeo.com/album/169724shapeimage_3_link_0