CSCI-544

Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Spring 2011

Class Details

Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00
Location:VHE 210
(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
Jerry Hobbs

Guest Lecturers:

Dirk Hovy
Liang Huang

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.

Schedule

Date	Instructor	Lecture
January 11	Kozareva	Introduction to NLP
January 13	Dirk Hovy	Syntax and Parsing
January 18	Kozareva	Information Extraction
January 20	Kozareva	Named Entity Recognition I
January 25	Kozareva	Named Entity Recognition II Assignment 1 is out. Send me an e-mail to receive a copy of the data!
January 27	Kozareva	Named Entity Discrimination
February 1	Kozareva	Semantic Class Learning
February 3	Hovy	Generation 1: Overview and Realization by Phrasal Expansion
February 8	Hovy	Generation 2: Probabilistic Realization
February 10	Hovy	Generation 3: Text Structure
February 15	Hovy	Generation 4: Macro and Microplanning for NLG Assignment 1 test data is out. Submit output on Feb 16th to Zornitsa Kozareva by mail
February 17	Hovy	Generation 5: Generator Control: The Role of Pragmatics Assignment 2 is out.
February 22	Hobbs	Logic for representing natural language
February 24	Hobbs	The syntax and compositional semantics of clauses
March 1	Hobbs	The syntax and compositional semantics of noun phrases
March 3	Hobbs	Coordination and comparison
March 8	Hovy	Pragmatics
March 10	Hovy	Ontologies
March 15		Spring Break
March 17		Spring Break
March 22	Kozareva	Graph Algorithms, Social Media and NLP applications
March 24	Kozareva	Textual Entailment
March 29	Kozareva	Regression Analysis
March 31	Huang	Parsing: Context-Free Grammars; Chomsky Hierarchy
April 5	Huang	Parsing: CKY Algorithm; Binarization
April 7	Huang	Parsing: Earley Algorithm; Chart Parsing Algorithms Assignment 3 is out.
April 12	Hovy	Applications 1: Machine Translation
April 14	Hovy	Applications 2: Information Retrieval
April 19	Hovy	Applications 3: Speech Recognition
April 21	Hovy	Applications 4: Text Summarization and QA Final Projects: Option 1 (Own idea) Option 2 (Summarization) given by Eduard Hovy Donwload instructions for Option 2 Option 3 (Name Discrimination) given by Zornitsa Kozareva Donwload instructions for Option 3 Download data for Option 3
April 26	Hovy	Topics in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics
April 28	Hovy and Kozareva	Closing