CSCI-544

Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Spring 2010



Class Details

Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00
Location: KAP 166

Instructors:

Eduard Hovy
Jerry Hobbs
Zornitsa Kozareva
Liang Huang
Ulf Hermjakob

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Schedule

Date Instructor Lecture
January 12 Hovy Introduction to NLP
January 14 Hovy Generation 1: Overview and Realization by Phrasal Expansion
January 19 Hovy Generation 2: Probabilistic Realization
January 21 Hovy Generation 3: Text Structure
January 26 Hovy Generation 4: Macro and Microplanning for NLG
January 28 Hovy Generation 5: Generator Control: The Role of Pragmatics
Assignment 1 is out. Due on Feb 24th
February 2 Hobbs Logic for representing natural language
HW1, Due Feb 4th, Beginning of class
Texts
February 4 Hobbs The syntax and compositional semantics of clauses
HW2, Due February 11, Beginning of class
February 9 Hermjakob Shift Reduce Parsing
February 11 Hobbs The syntax and compositional semantics of noun phrases
February 16 Hobbs Coordination and comparison
February 18 Hobbs Inference for question-answering
February 23 Hobbs Coreference, metonymy, and discourse structure
February 25 Guest Lecture
March 2 Huang Context-Free Grammars; The Power of Recursion; Chomsky Hierarchy
March 4 Huang CKY Algorithm; Parsing as Deduction
March 9 Huang Earley Algorithm; Chart Parsing
March 11 Kozareva Information Extraction 1: Named Entity Recognition and Classification: Rule-based and Supervised Methods
March 16 Spring Break
March 18 Spring Break
March 23 Kozareva Information Extraction 2: Named Entities: Supervised and Semi-Supervised Methods
March 25 Kozareva Information Extraction 3: Named Entity Discrimination
March 30 Kozareva Information Extraction 4: Web People Search
April 1 Kozareva Text Mining 1: Web-based Hyponym Discovery with Lexico-Syntactic Patterns
April 6 Kozareva Text Mining 2: Web-based Hypernym Discovery with Lexico-Syntactic Patterns
April 8 Kozareva Text Mining 3: Towards Open Information Extraction from the Web
April 13 Hovy Applications 1: Machine Translation 1:
April 15 Hovy Applications 2: Machine Translation 2:
April 20 Hovy Applications 3: Information Retrieval
April 22 Hovy Applications 4: Speech Recognition
April 27 Hovy Applications 5: Text Summarization and QA
April 29 Hovy Closing: Topics in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics