| Date |
Instructor |
Lecture |
| January 10 |
Hovy |
Introduction to NLP (notes) |
| January 12 |
Hovy |
Sematics: Representations and Ontologies (notes) |
| January 17 |
Hovy |
Generation 1: Overview and Realization by Phrasal Expansion (notes) |
| January 19 |
Hovy |
Generation 2: Probabilistic Realization (notes)
Assignment 1 is out
Due date: Sun, Feb 12!
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| January 24 |
Hovy |
Generation 3: Text Structure (notes) (slides)
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| January 26 |
Hovy |
Generation 4: Macro and Microplanning for NLG (notes)
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| January 31 |
Kozareva |
Information Extraction (slides) |
| February 2 |
Kozareva |
Classification Algorithms: Decision Trees, k-NN (slides) |
| February 7 |
Kozareva |
Classification Algorithms: Perceptron. Features. Introduction to Weka (slides) |
| February 9 |
Kozareva |
Name Entity Discrimination, Clustering (slides)
Assignment 2 is out |
| February 14 |
Kozareva |
Semantic Class Learning (slides) |
| February 16 |
Kozareva |
Graph Algorithms. Application to Semantic Class Learning. (slides) |
| February 21 |
Kozareva |
Assignment 2 Overview (slides) |
| February 23 |
Kozareva |
Question Classification (slides) |
| February 28 |
Kozareva |
Textual Entailment (slides).
Download Homework#2 Test Data |
| March 1 |
Kozareva |
Paraphrase Acquisition (slides)
Assignment 2 Due Date is Today!
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March 6 |
Kozareva |
Attribute Extraction from Query Logs, Web Documents and Wikipedia
"Low-cost Supervision for Multiple-Source Attribute Extraction", Joseph Reisinger and Marius Pasca
"Weakly-supervised Acquisition of Open-Document Classes and Class Attributes from Web Documents and Query Logs", Marius Pasca and Benjamin Van Durme
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| March 8 |
David Traum |
Introduction to Dialogue Systems (slides)
Assignment 3 is out
Download data for Assignment 3
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| March 13 |
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Spring Break |
| March 15 |
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Spring Break |
| March 20 |
Hovy |
Pragmatics: Generator Control (notes) |
| March 22 |
Kozareva |
Event Extraction and Reordering
Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Event Chains
Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Schemas and their Participants
Learning Script Knowledge with Web Experiments
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| March 27 |
Kozareva |
Deciphering Substitution Ciphers
- Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight. Attacking decipherment problems optimally with low-order n-gram models. In Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 812-819, 2008
- Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight. Learning phoneme mappings for transliteration without parallel data. In Proceedings of Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL/HLT), pages 37-45, 2009
- Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight. Minimized models for unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. In Proceedings of the Joint Conferenceof the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), pages 504-512, 2009
- Sravana Reddy and Kevin Knight. What We Know About The Voynich Manuscript. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities. (slides)
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| March 29 |
Kozareva |
Sentiment, Reviews and Regression Analysis
Assignment 3 Due Date is Today!
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| April 3 |
Hovy |
Applications 1: Information Retrieval notes |
| April 5 |
Hovy |
Applications 2: Text Summarization notes |
| April 10 |
Hovy |
Applications 3: Machine Translation I notes |
| April 12 |
Hovy |
Applications 4: Machine Translation II notes |
| April 17 |
Hovy |
Applications 5: Speech Recognition notes |
| April 19 |
Hovy |
A New Model of Semantics |
| April 24 |
Hovy |
Topics in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics notes |
| April 26 |
Hovy and Kozareva |
Closing |