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

Textbooks

Daniel Jurafsky and James Martin. Speech and Language Processing, Prentice Hall, 1999.
Christopher Manning and Hinrich Schütze. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press, 1999.
James Allen. Natural Language Understanding (2nd ed), Addison Wesley, 1994.

Announcements:

First day of class is January 12th 2010
Assignment 1 is out. Due on Feb 24th

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