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:

David Traum, ICT

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.

Classes from Previous Years

Syllabi and materials from previous years. Since those pages are no longer maintained, there is no guarantee of completeness.

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	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!
March 6	Kozareva	Attribute Extraction from Query Logs, Web Documents and Wikipedia
March 8	David Traum	Introduction to Dialogue Systems (slides) Assignment 3 is out Download data for Assignment 3
March 13		Spring Break
March 15		Spring Break
March 20	Hovy	Pragmatics: Generator Control (notes)
March 22	Kozareva	Event Extraction and Reordering
March 27	Kozareva	Deciphering Substitution Ciphers
March 29	Kozareva	Sentiment, Reviews and Regression Analysis Assignment 3 Due Date is Today!
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