FNLP 2020 Schedule


Alex Lascarides, Shay Cohen
Academic year 2019-2020

1. Lecture, lab and assignment timetable, with appropriate readings

Note that this page is being constantly updated, and therefore some of the information may not yet be completely accurate for 2019.

WkDate & TopicLab sessionsAssignmentsReadingGoing Further (optional)
1
14 January Introduction: Course overview 01_slides.pdf, 2x2,
17 January Language Data: Corpora and language in use 02_slides.pdf, 2x2,
J&M 2nd ed.: 1

NLTK Book Ch. 1--3
2
21 January Shallow NLP: Ngram Language Modelling 03_slides.pdf, 2x2,
24 January Shallow NLP: Evaluation and smoothing 04_slides.pdf, 2x2,
Assignment 1: Corpora and Language Identification assignment1.pdf assignment1.tar.gz interim progress checker

due 4pm Thursday 13 February 2020

J&M 3.intro, 3.1 (J&M 2nd ed.: 3.intro, 3.1–3.3) (Tue)

J&M 3.2–3.5 (2nd ed.: 4.4–4.5, 4.10) (Fri)
3
28 January Shallow NLP: More smoothing; Noisy Channel model 05_slides.pdf, 2x2,
31 January Shallow NLP: Spelling correction; edit distance; EM 06_slides.pdf, 2x2
Continue with last week's lab; clinic for assignment 1.

J&M 2.5–2.6, (2nd ed. 3.11, 5.9)
4
4 February Shallow NLP: Naive Bayes and MaxEnt for text classification 07_slides.pdf, 2x2,
7 February Shallow NLP: POS tagging and Hidden Markov Models 08_slides.pdf, 2x2,
J&M 4.intro, 4.5 (2nd ed. 4.7, 4.9.1), 5, 21.2–21.3
5
11 February Shallow NLP: Algorithms for HMMs 09_slides.pdf, 2x2,
14 February Annotation and Evaluation: Methods in Annotation and Evaluation 10_slides.pdf, 2x2,

J&M: 4.7–4.9 (2nd ed.:5.7)
6
18 February Flexible Learning Week: No Lecture
21 February Flexible Learning Week: No Lecture
7
25 February Syntactic Processing: CFGs and Parsing 11_slides.pdf, 2x2,
28 February Syntactic Processing: CKY parsing, Statistical constituency parsing 12_slides.pdf, 2x2,
[None this week]
Assignment 2: POS Tagging assignment2.pdf assignment2.tar.gz interim progress checker

due 4pm, Thursday 12 March 2020

J&M 12.1–12.4 and NLTK, (J&M 2nd ed. 12–12.3, 13–13.4.1)

J&M 14.1–14.4 (2nd ed. 12.4)
J&M 2nd ed.:14.1, 14.3–14.6.0, 14.7
8
3 March Syntactic Processing: Heads, Dependency parsing 13_slides.pdf, 2x2,
6 March Lexical Semantic Processing: Computing with word senses 14_slides.pdf, 2x2,
J&M 14.6, 15.1, 15.4 (2nd ed. 12.4.4, 12.7–12.7.1)

J&M 19.1–19.5 or J&M 2nd ed.: Chapter 19
(Kübler et al., 2009) (PDF available over the campus network)
9
10 March Lexical Semantic Processing: Distributional word representations 15_slides.pdf, 2x2
13 March Lexical Semantic Processing: Semantic role labeling and argument structure 16_slides.pdf, 2x2,
J&M 6

J&M 20
10
17 March Discourse Coherence: Discourse Coherence 17_slides.pdf, 2x2,
20 March Wrapup: Review and Revision 18_slides.pdf, 2x2, ; Revision Guide
J&M 23
Using MI for sentiment on Twitter: ANLP lab 8

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