Schedule

LING 5801: Introduction to computational linguistics (CL1)
Autumn 2017

Tuesday-Thursday 9:35-10:55
Scott Lab E 105

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Office hours: Thursday 1:30-2:30 or by appointment
Ohio Stadium East, room 118E

Schedule
Readings and assignments can be found on Carmen.
Note that schedule is subject to change.
Homeworks that have to be turned in are due by class time (9:35) on their due date.
WeekDateTopicReadingHW
Morphology and regular languages
108/22 Introduction
08/24 Regular expressions
208/29 MorphologyJurafsky & Martin ch3
08/31 Finite state automata
309/05 Implementing FSAJurafsky & Martin ch2HW1
09/07 Regular languages
409/12 Rule-based vs. LearningJurafsky & Martin AppB
Creutz & Lagus 2002
09/14 Data files and projectsGhazvininejad et al. 2016HW1 due
509/19Work on HW2 (Marie's away)
09/21Class cancelled
Program correctness and complexity
609/26Class cancelled
09/28Correctness
710/03 ComplexityHW2
Syntax and parsing
10/05 SyntaxJurafsky & Martin ch9
810/10 Context-free grammarsJurafsky & Martin ch10HW2 due
10/12 NO CLASS: AUTUMN BREAK
910/17Probabilistic parsingJurafsky & Martin ch12
10/19Lexicalized parsingHW3
1010/24Dependency parsing
10/26 Dependency parsing
1110/31 Dependency parsingde Lhoneux et al. 2017
Probability models
11/02 Probability theoryManning & Schutze ch2.1HW3 due
1211/07 Naive Bayes classifier
11/09 Information theoryManning & Schutze ch2.2HW4
1311/14Evaluation
Lexical semantics
11/16 Thesaurus approachesJurafsky & Martin ch16
1411/21 Distributional approaches Erk 2016HW4 due
11/23 NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING
1511/28 Implementing word vectors
11/30 Implementing word vectorsHW5
1612/05 Lexical similarity task