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Time and Place

Lectures for this course in 2013 are in Semester 2, on:

Tuesdays:

10:00--10:50am

David Hume Tower, Room 7.01

Fridays:

10:00--10:50am

David Hume Tower, Room 7.01

Details

• Course Descriptor
• Week by Week breakdown of Lectures, readings, exercises for lab sessions and the assignments
• Videos of the lectures.
• Books
  • The set textbook for this course is: Jurafsky, D and J. H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing, Second Edition (2009)
    There are copies available in the Main Library, shelf mark P98 Jur., for both standard and short loan.
  • In addition, the lab sessions use a lot of the NLTK material and software packages, all of which are explained in the following recommended textbook:
    Bird, S., E. Klein and E. Loper, Natural Language Processing with Python, (2009) O'Reilly Media.
• Lab Sessions:
  • You will be allocated to one of the following lab sessions:
    • Mondays 15.10 - 16.00, Room 5.08 Appleton Tower. Demonstrator is Johanna Moore.
    • Wednesdays 11.10 - 12.00, Room 5.08 Appleton Tower. Demonstrator is Miles Osborne
    Find out which lab session you should go to.
• Assessment:
  Assessment will be by:
  • An end of year exam (70%)
    • Location: To Be Determined
  • Coursework (30%): 2 assignments.
    All coursework will be issued here by 21st January 2013.
    The deadline for assignment 1 is 4pm Thursday 14th February 2013 and
    The deadline for assignment 2 is 4pm Thursday 7th March 2013.
    We will endeavour to return feedback to students no later than 2 weeks after the deadlines. For more information, see Informatics coursework guidelines.
  • Past Exam Papers: can be reached from the main past examination papers page.
  • There is one additional past paper, May 2009, available for study purposes.
  • Note: The rubric for this year's exam is changed slightly from previous years. It now reads as follows:

    Part A is COMPULSORY.
    The short answer questions in Part A are each worth 3 marks, 24 marks in total. Each of the three questions in part B is worth 13 marks --- answer any TWO of these.

• Policy on Late Assignments 
• People
  • Lecturers: Alex Lascarides
  • Lab Demonstrators: Miles Osborne and Johanna Moore.
• Lab Groups
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