Lecturer: Philipp Koehn
TA: Sebastian Riedel
Lectures: Mondays and Thursdays, 14:00, FH Room A9/11
Tutorials: Tuesday or Wednesday 13:00, AT 5.01
Tutorial group assignments.
A single assessment (worth 30%) of the course was given out on January 30. You will have to turn in your paper and code on March 23 in class.
The rest of the marks (70%) will go on the exam. Past exam, solutions.
No | Date | Topic | Slides | Reference |
1 | 9 Jan | Introduction (I): Words and probability | display | print | MS chapter 1 |
2 | 12 Jan | Introduction (II): Estimation and information theory | display | print | MS chapter 2 |
3 | 16 Jan | Language modeling (I): From counts to smoothing | display | print | MS chapter 6 JM chapter 6 |
4 | 19 Jan | Language modeling (II): Smoothing and back-off | display | print | MS chapter 6 JM chapter 6 |
5 | 23 Jan | Tagging (I): Part-of-speech tagging with HMM | display | print | MS chapter 9/10 JM chapter 8 |
6 | 27 Jan | Tagging (II): Transformation-Based Learning | display | print | MS chapter 10 |
7 | 30 Jan | Project | display | - |
8 | 2 Feb | Tagging (III): Maximum Entropy Models | display | print | Ratnaparkhi [1996] Berger et al. [1993] |
9 | 6 Feb | Parsing (I): Context-free grammars and chart parsing | display | print | JM chapter 9/12 |
10 | 9 Feb | Parsing (II): Lexicalised and probabilistic parsing | display | print | JM chapter 12 |
11 | 13 Feb | Word sense disambiguation | display | print | JM section 17.2, MS chapter 7 Yarowsky [1995] |
12 | 16 Feb | Text categorization and clustering | display | print | MS chapter 14/16 |
13 | 20 Feb | Semantics and discourse | display | print | Carlson et al. [2001] Pang and Lee [2005] |
- | 23 Feb | NO LECTURE | - | - |
14 | 27 Feb | Machine translation (I): Introduction | display | print | - |
15 | 2 Mar | Machine translation (II): Word-based models and the EM algorithm | display | print | Brown et al. [2003] |
16 | 6 Mar | Machine translation (III): Decoding | display | print | Koehn [2004] |
17 | 9 Mar | Machine translation (IV): Phrase-based models | display | print | Koehn et al. [2003] Och and Ney [2002] |
18 | 13 Mar | Machine translation (V): Syntax-based models | display | print | Yamada and Knight [2002] Chiang [2005] Collins et al. [2005] |
19 | 16 Mar | Machine translation (VI): Advanced topics | display part2| print part2 |
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- | 20 Mar | NO LECTURE | - | - |
20 | 23 Mar | Review | - | - |
MS refers to "Manning and Schütze", JM refers to "Jurafsky and Martin", the two textbooks listed below.
Topics may shift and change during flight.