Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing 

Textbook required for puchase or reference (on library reserve, Barker P98.J87 2009):
Jurafsky, D. and Martin, J.H., Speech and Language Processing
2nd edition, Prentice-Hall: 2008.   

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Topic	Slides & Reference Readings
Introduction: walking the walk, talking the talk	• Lecture 1 pdf slides; pdf 4-up; Jurafsky & Martin (JM), ch. 1. • If you don't know Python, read the NLTK book, ch. 1-3; otherwise, skim NLTK book, chs 2–3. • Background Reading (for RR 1): Jurafsky & Martin ch.4 on ngrams. (pp. 83-94; p. 114-116) • Background Reading (for RR 1): Abney on statistics and language. • Background Reading (for RR 1): Chomsky, Extract on grammaticality, 1955. • (Optional) Background chapters on NLP from Russell & Norvig, ch. 22.
RR1 discussion; Bayes' rule and smoothing; from words to parsing	Intro to Competitive Grammar Writing
Parts of speech, parsers, and statistical parsing; Parsing & competitive grammar writing I	• Bring notebook computer to class (at least 1 per team) • Competitive Grammar Writing slides, pdf; pdf, 2up • JM, ch. 13 (parsing), pp. 427-435; ch. 14, pp. 459-467 • (Optional) NLTK book on advanced parsing (skim)
Parsing & competitive grammar writing II	• Bring notebook computer to class (at least 1 per team)
Parsing & competitive grammar writing III	• Bring notebook computer to class (at least 1 per team)
Competitive Grammar Evaluation & Wrap-up, Grammy Awards
Smoothing & language models	• Lecture 3 pdf slides; pdf 4-up • JM ch. 3
Smoothing; word parsing	• Lecture 4 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
Word parsing II	• Lecture 5 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
Context Free parsing I	• Lecture 6 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
Context-free parsing II	• Lecture 7 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
RR #2	• No slides today
Earley's algorithm	• Lecture 8 pdf slides; pdf 4-up; animation of Earley algorithm here; 4upbw Earley here.
Modern statistical parsers I	• Lecture 9 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
Treebank parsers II	• Lecture 10 pdf slides;
Semantics I: the lambda calculus view	•Lecture 11 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
Semantics II: SQL	•Lecture 12 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
Semantics III: Quantifiers	• Lecture 13 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
Semantics IV: learning words	•Lecture 14 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
	•Lecture 15 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
Lexical Semantics	• Lecture 16 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
Discourse	• Lecture 17 pdf slides pdf 4-up
Language Learning	• Lecture 18 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
Language Learning & Language Change	• Lecture 19 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
Evolution of language	• Lecture 20 pdf slides; pdf 4-up
Evolution of language	• Lecture 21 pdf slides; pdf 4-up