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Note that this page is being constantly updated, and therefore some of the information may not yet be accurate for the academic year 2011--2012.
Two-up, print-friendly review versions of the slides used during the lectures will be available here:
Other review material:
| Wk | Date & Topic | Lab sessions | Assignments | Reading |
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| 1 | 17 January Introduction: Course overview, recent history of NLP, Review of Inf 2A 1 20 January Introduction: Working with corpora, the beginnings of corpora 2 | |||
| 2 | 24 January Creating annotated corpora: Corpus markup: SGML and XML 3 27 January Creating annotated corpora: Corpus standards 4 | Assignment 1:
Comparing corpora due 4pm Thursday 16th February 2012
| J&M C4, Ss 4.1–4.3 | |
| 3 | 31 January Creating annotated corpora: Gold standards, evaluation 5 3 February Shallow NLP: Ngram Language Modelling
06_slides.pdf,
2x2 | J&M C5, S5.7; C4, S4.9.3 J&M 4.4 | ||
| 4 | 7 February Shallow NLP: Smoothing 07_slides.pdf,
2x2 10 February Shallow NLP: Backoff 08_slides.pdf,
2x2 | J&M 4.4, 4.5, 4.10 J&M 4.6–4.8 | ||
| 5 | 14 February Shallow NLP: POS Tagging Preliminaries 09_slides.pdf,
2x2
17 February Shallow NLP: The Noisy Channel Model, HMMs and POS tagging10_slides.pdf,
2x2
| Assignment 2:
HMM taggers due 4pm, Thursday 8th March
| J&M 3.11, 5.1–5.3, 5.9.1 J&M 5.5, 6.1, 6.2 | |
| 6 | 21 February Innovative Learning Week: No Lecture 24 February Innovative Learning Week: No Lecture | |||
| 7 | 28 February Shallow NLP: HMMs and the Viterbi Algorithm11_slides.pdf,
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2 March Shallow NLP: Viterbi algorithm, HMM training 12 | J&M 6.2–6.4 J&M 5.5, 6.1–6.5 | ||
| 8 | 6 March Syntax and syntactic processing: revision of context-free grammars and chart
parsing 13 9 March Syntax and syntactic processing: Features and unification; Probabilistic CF-PSGs 14 | J&M C12, Ss 12.1–12.3 J&M C14 thru 14.2, 14.7, C15 thru 15.3.1, 15.4 thru 15.4.1 | ||
| 9 | 13 March Machine translation 15 16 March Lexical Processing: Collocations and Mutual Information16_slides.pdf,
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| J&M C25 thru 25.4 J&M 4.4, 20.2.1, 20.7.2 | ||
| 10 | 20 March Lexical Processing: Lexical Semantics 17_slides.pdf,
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23 March Lexical Processing: Computational Lexical Semantics
18_slides.pdf,
2x2
| [None this week] | J&M C19
J&M C20 | |
| 11 | 27 March Wrapup: Overview |
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