CSCI-544

Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Spring 2012

Class Details

Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00
Location:WPH106
The sister course, CS 562, Statistical Natural Language Processing (also known as Empirical Methods in NLP), is offered in the Fall semesters. You can take these two courses in either order.

Instructors:

Eduard Hovy
Zornitsa Kozareva

TA:

Dirk Hovy

Guest Lecturer:

TBD

Textbooks

Daniel Jurafsky and James Martin. Speech and Language Processing, 2nd edi., Prentice Hall, 2008.
Christopher Manning and Hinrich Schütze. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press, 1999.
James Allen. Natural Language Understanding (2nd ed), Addison Wesley, 1994.
Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (3rd ed), Morgan Kaufmann, 2005.
Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper. Natural Language Processing with Python - Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit, O'Reilly Media, 2009.

Schedule

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!
January 24	Hovy	Generation 3: Text Structure (notes) (slides)
January 26	Hovy	Generation 4: Macro and Microplanning for NLG (notes)
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	Text Classification
February 16	Kozareva	Semantic Class Learning from the Web
February 21	Kozareva	Graph Algorithms and Social Media
February 23	Kozareva	Structure of the Web, Properties of Semantic Networks
February 28	Kozareva	Relation Extraction. Taxonomies.
March 1	Kozareva	Attribute Extraction from Query Logs, Web Documents and Wikipedia Assignment 3 is out
March 6	Kozareva	Textual Entailment. Paraphrasing.
March 8	Guest Lecture	TBD
March 13		Spring Break
March 15		Spring Break
March 20	Hovy	Pragmatics: Generator Control
March 22	Kozareva	Noun Compound Interpretation
March 27	Kozareva	Event Extraction and Reordering
March 29	Kozareva	Sentiment Analysis on Twitter
April 3	Hovy	Applications 1: Information Retrieval
April 5	Hovy	Applications 2: Text Summarization
April 10	Hovy	Applications 3: Question Answering
April 12	Hovy	Applications 4: Machine Translation I
April 17	Hovy	Applications 5: Machine Translation II
April 19	Hovy	Applications 6: Speech Recognition Final Projects:
April 24	Hovy	Topics in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics
April 26	Hovy and Kozareva	Closing