Tuesday-Thursday 9:35-10:55, Derby Hall 029

Instructor: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mcdm/

Office hours: Tuesday 11:00-12:30, 3:00-4:30 or by appointment
Oxley Hall, room 201A

Note that schedule is subject to change.
Assignments are due by class time (9:35) on their due date.
DMB stands for the text book that we will use in class: Dickinson, Brew and Meurers. (2012) Language and computers.

Week	Dates	Topics	Readings	Assignments
Week 1	1/10	Introduction
Week 2	1/15	Encoding language	DBM ch1
	1/17	Encoding language
Week 3	1/22	Spelling correction	DBM ch2	HW1: Encoding language
	1/24	Spelling correction
Week 4	1/29	Grammar	DBM ch3: 73-81	HW1 due
	1/31	Grammar	P. Norvig: spell checker
Week 5	2/05	Search	DBM ch4	HW2: grammar & spelling correction
	2/07	Search
Week 6	2/12	Search		HW2 due
	2/14	Search		HW3: search
Week 7	2/19	Document classification	DBM ch5
	2/21	Document classification		HW3 due
Week 8	2/26	Mid-term
	2/28	Document classification		HW4: classification
Week 9	3/05	Dialog	DBM ch6
	3/07	Dialog		HW4 due
Week 10	3/19	Dialog
	3/21	Machine translation	DBM ch7	HW5: dialog
Week 11	3/26	Machine translation
	3/28	Machine translation		HW5 due
Week 12	4/02	Crowdsourcing	Mission 4636	HW6: translation
	4/04	Impact of technology on society	Reading on Carmen
Week 13	4/09	Impact of technology on society		HW6 due
	4/11	Forensic linguistics
Week 14	4/16	Forensic linguistics
	4/18			Essay due
Exam week	4/25	Final exam - 10:00-11:45