Note that this page is being constantly updated, and therefore some of the information may not yet be completely accurate for 2019.
Wk | Date & Topic | Lab sessions | Assignments | Reading | Going Further (optional) |
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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 3.3–3.5, Appendix B J&M 2.5–2.6, (2nd ed. 3.11, 5.9) | Peter Norvig's simple spelling corrector (code and tutorial); Brill and Moore (2000) | |
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 8–8.4 | |||
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 Appendix A 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 | ||
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,
| J&M 23 | Using MI for sentiment on Twitter: ANLP lab 8 |
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