Calendar

LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction and Overview
2 Parsing and Syntax I
3 Smoothed Estimation, and Language Modeling
4 Parsing and Syntax II
5 The EM Algorithm
6 The EM Algorithm Part II
7 Lexical Similarity Homework 1 due
8 Lexical Similarity (cont.)
9 Log-Linear Models
10 Tagging and History-based Models
11 Grammar Induction Homework 2 due
12 Computational Modeling of Discourse
13 Text Segmentation
Midterm
14 Local Coherence and Coreference Homework 3 due
15 Machine Translation
16 Machine Translation (cont.)
17 Machine Translation (cont.)
18 Graph-based Methods for NLP Applications Homework 4 due
19 Word Sense Disambiguation
20 Global Linear Models
21 Global Linear Models Part II Homework 5 due
22 Dialogue Processing
23 Dialogue Processing (cont.)
24 Guest Lecture: Stephanie Seneff Homework 6 due
25 Text Summarization
Final Exam