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TOPICS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Lecturer: Shay Cohen
Teaching Assistant: Marco Damonte
Time and Location: Tuesday and Friday, 13:10-14:00, 1.20 Dugald Stewart Building (semester 2)
Office Hours: Tuesday, 14:30-15:30. Could also set an appointment.

SCHEDULE

Part I: Lectures

Week	No.	Date	Topic	Slides	Reading
1	1	17/1/17	Introduction and Basic Refresher	slides	Bayesian analysis in NLP, Chapter 1, sections 1.1-1.4
1	2	20/1/17	Estimation	slides	Bayesian analysis in NLP, Chapter 1, sections 1.5-1.6,A.1
2	3	24/1/17	Bayesian Learning	slides	Bayesian analysis in NLP, Chapter 2.
2	4	27/1/17	Grammar Models - Beyond Context Free	slides	Joshi and Schabes (1997), Hockenmaier and Steedman (2007), Shieber (1985), extra reading: Kallmeyer (2010)
3	5	31/1/17	Inference	slides	Linguistic Structure Prediction, Smith (2011), mostly Chapter 2, but also Chapter 5, Bayesian analysis in NLP, Chapter 5.
3	6	3/2/16	Linear Models and Learning	slides	Linguistic Structure Prediction, Smith (2011), Chapter 3
4	7	7/2/16	Neural Networks, Deep Learning and Representation Learning	slides	Chung et al. (2014)
4	8	10/2/16	Learning from Incomplete Data	slides	Linguistic Structure Prediction, Smith (2011), Chapter 4

Part II: Student presentations

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