IN4080 - Autumn 2018

Syllabus

Background

Workbench

Readings

We will use parts of the following online books

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3rd ed. draft, v-2018-08-21
NLTK book
OpenIntro Statistics, 3rd ed (or some other statistics book of your choice)

We will also read some articles

Weekly overview

Time & Place	Program
22 Aug. 2:15 pm	Lec1: Introduction & Looking at data Presentation Recommended reading Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 2. ed., Ch. 1 Wikipedia, "Natural Language Processing" Wikipedia, "Frequency (statistics) NLTK Book, sec. 1.3, 2.2 For the descriptive statistics part, any of the following will cover the lecture OpenIntro 1.1, 1.2.0- 1.2.2, 1.6.0-1.6.5, 1.7.0-1.7.2 Nutshell: Ch. 4, "Descriptive Statistics and Graphical Displays", p. 83-120 Moore and McCabe: Ch. 1, "Looking at Data - Distributions", sec. 1.1-1.2 Cartoon Guide: Ch. (1-) 2, "Data Description"
23 Aug	No Lecture
27 Aug 2:15 pm	Lab1: Python, NLTK, plotting Workbench Exercises
29 Aug 2:15 pm	Lec2: Words, lexicon, texts Presentation Recordings: video \| audio only Mandatory reading Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.: Ch. 2 Regular expressions etc Sec. 2.0 Sec. 2.2 Words Sec. 2.3 Corpora Sec 2.4 Normalization, except 2.4.3 Chinese Ch. 8 Part-of-speech-tagging, Sec 8.1 and 8.2 NLTK Book Ch. 3, sec. 6 Normalizing Text Ch. 3, sec. 8 Segmentation Ch. 5, sec. 1 Using a tagger Ch. 5, sec. 2 Tagged corpora Wikipedia Word Lexeme Lemma Part of speech Recommended reading Wikipedia Morphology
30 Aug 10:15 am	Lec3: Probabilities Presentation Mandatory reading OpenIntro Ch. 2, "Probability", sec. 2.1-2.4
3 Sep 2:15 pm	Lab2: Mandatory assignment 1
5 Sep 2:15 pm	Lec4: Text classification Presentation Recordings: video \| audio only Mandatory reading Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.: Ch. 4, "Naive Bayes Classification and Sentiment" NLTK Book Ch. 6, "Learning to Classify Text"
6 Sep 10:15 am	Lec5: Probability distributions Presentation Mandatory reading OpenIntro Ch. 3, "Distributions of random variables",: Sec. 3.3.1 Bernoulli distribution Sec. 3.4.1 Binomial distribution Recommended exercises Recommended reading OpenIntro Ch. 3, "Distributions of random variables",: Sec. 3.1 Normal distribution Sec. 3.4.2 Normal approximation
12 Sep 2:15 pm	Lec6: N-gram models and more on Naive Bayes Presentations Slides for Language models, slide 1-65 Slides for the rest Recordings: First hour: video \| audio only Second hour: video \| audio only Mandatory reading Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.: Ch. 3, "N-gram langauge models" Sec. 3.0-3.4 Sec. 3.6
17 Sep 2:15 pm	Lab3: Text classification 1 Exercises Last minute help with mandatory assignment 1
19 Sep 2:15 pm	Lec7: HMM-tagging Presentations Remaining slides from lat week HMM-tagging No recordings The equipment in the room did not work. Mandatory reading Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.: Ch. 8, "Part-of-Speech Tagging " Sec. 8.0-8.4
24 Sep 2:15 pm	Lab4: Text classification 2 Exercises
26 Sep 2:15 pm	Lec8: Logistic regression Presentation Recordings: video \| audio only Mandatory reading Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.: Ch. 5, "Logisitc Regression" We will be light on some of the mathematical details (cf. presentation)
1 Oct 2:15 pm	Lab5 First hour: Jointly look at solutions to exercise set 3 and set 4 Second hour: Start work on mandatory set 2 (= set 5) (to appear)
4 Oct 2:15 pm	Lec9: Sequence labelling, summary so far Presentation Recordings: video \| audio only Mandatory reading Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.: Loose ends from chapters 5 and 8 Chapter 7, sec. 7.0-7.3 Chapter 17, sec. 17.0-17.2 Matthew Honnibal: A Good Part-of-Speech Tagger in about 200 Lines of Python
8 Oct 2:15 pm	Lab6 Joint work on exercise set 6 (=Mandatory assignment 2, part B) Individual advices on mandatory assignment 2
10 Oct 2:15 pm	Lec10: Vector Semantics - Sparse Vectors Presentation Recordings: video \| audio only Mandatory reading Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.: Chapter 6, sec. 6.1-6.6
15 Oct 2:15 pm	Lab7 Last minute help with mandatory assignment 2
17 Oct 2:15 pm	Lec11: Vector semantics - Word2Vec Presentation Mandatory reading Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.: Chapter 6, sec. 6.7-6.13 Links WebVectors: Word embeddings online? (browsable, visualized and downloadbale word embeddings) Finn.no: Kandidatprofil for jobb? (word embeddings and text CNN model at finn.no)
18 Oct 10:15 am	Lec12: Phrase structure, grammar and parsing Presentation No recording Mandatory reading Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.: Chapter 10, sec. 10.0-10.5 Chapter 11. sec. 11.0-11.1 NLTK Book Ch. 8, sec. (8.)1 Some grammatical dilemmeas-(8.)3 Context-Free Grammar Ch. 8, sec. (8.)4.2 Shift-Reduce parsing Recommended reading NLTK Book Ch. 8, sec. (8.)4.1Recursive Descent Parsing J&M, chapter 11, sec. 11.2 CKY-parsing
24 Oct 2:15 pm	Lec13: Dependency parsing Presentation Main presentation Additional parser example Recording: video \| audio only Mandatory reading Nivre, Joakim: "Dependency grammar and dependency parsing" in MSI report 05133. , 2005. V?xj? University: School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering. Sections 1,2,4. On-line copy. Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.: Chapter 13, sec. 13.0-13.4, 13.6-13.7 Nivre, Joakim: "Two Strategies for Text Parsing" in A Man of Measure: Festschrift in Honour of Fred Karlsson on his 60th Birthday., 2006. On-line copy. Recommended reading Arnold Zwicky: "Heads" in Journal of Linguistics, Vol 21, 1985. Sections 1-2. On-line copy. Nivre, Joakim et. al.: "MaltParser: A language-independent system for data-driven dependency parsing" in Natural Language Engineering, 2007. Sections 1-4.1. On-line copy. Nivre et al. (2016). Universal Dependencies v1: A Multilingual Treebank Collection. In Proceedings of LREC-2016. Straka, M., & Strakov��, J. (2017). Tokenizing, POS Tagging, Lemmatizing and Parsing UD 2.0 with UDPipe. In Proceedings of the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies.
31 Oct 2:15 pm	Lec14: Information extraction Presentation No recording (due to a bad cough) Mandatory reading Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.: Chapter 11, sec. 11.3 Chapter 17, sec. 17.0-17.2 NLTK Book Ch. 7, sec 7.0-7.3, 7.5
5 Nov 2:00 pm	Lab8 Joint work on Mandatory assignment 3
7 Nov 2:15 pm	Lec15: Relation extraction; Evaluation and significance Presentation Recordings First part: video \| audio only Second part: video \| audio only Mandatory reading Miroslav Kubat, An Introduction to Machine Learning (accessible within the uio domain) Chapter 11 Performance Chapter 12 Statistical significance OpenIntro Ch. 6, "Inferences for categorical data" Sec. 6.5, some of Sec. 6.1 and 6.2 Recommended reading OpenIntro Ch. 3, "Distributions of random variables",: Sec. 3.1 Normal distribution Sec. 3.4.2 Normal approximation
14 Nov 2:15 pm	Lec16: Evaluation and significance Presentation Recordings: video \| audio only Mandatory reading Miroslav Kubat, An Introduction to Machine Learning (accessible within the uio domain) Chapter 13, section 13.7 Criteria for performance evaluation
21 Nov 2:15 pm	Exercises and repetition Exercises Exam INF4820, 2016, exercise 3 Exam INF5830, 2017, exercises 1, 2, 3, 4
28 Nov 2:15 pm	More exercises and repetition Exercises Exercises on vector semantics Exam INF5830, 2017, exercises 3, 4 If time Exam INF5830, 2015, exercise 3

Time &
Place

Program

22 Aug.

2:15 pm

Lec1: Introduction & Looking at data

Presentation

No Lecture

27 Aug

2:15 pm

Lab1: Python, NLTK, plotting

Workbench

Exercises

29 Aug

2:15 pm

Lec2: Words, lexicon, texts

Presentation

Recordings: video | audio only

Mandatory reading

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.:

Ch. 2 Regular expressions etc
- Sec. 2.0
- Sec. 2.2 Words
- Sec. 2.3 Corpora
- Sec 2.4 Normalization, except 2.4.3 Chinese
Ch. 8 Part-of-speech-tagging,
- Sec 8.1 and 8.2

NLTK Book

Ch. 3, sec. 6 Normalizing Text
Ch. 3, sec. 8 Segmentation
Ch. 5, sec. 1 Using a tagger
Ch. 5, sec. 2 Tagged corpora

Wikipedia

Lec3: Probabilities

Presentation

Mandatory reading

OpenIntro Ch. 2, "Probability", sec. 2.1-2.4

3 Sep

2:15 pm

Lab2: Mandatory assignment 1

5 Sep

2:15 pm

Lec4: Text classification

Presentation

Recordings: video | audio only

Mandatory reading

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.:

Ch. 4, "Naive Bayes Classification and Sentiment"

NLTK Book

Ch. 6, "Learning to Classify Text"

6 Sep

10:15 am

Lec5: Probability distributions

Presentation

Mandatory reading

OpenIntro Ch. 3, "Distributions of random variables",:

Sec. 3.3.1 Bernoulli distribution
Sec. 3.4.1 Binomial distribution

Recommended exercises

Lec6: N-gram models and more on Naive Bayes

Presentations

Slides for Language models, slide 1-65
Slides for the rest

Recordings:

First hour: video | audio only
Second hour: video | audio only

Mandatory reading

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.:

Ch. 3, "N-gram langauge models"
- Sec. 3.0-3.4
- Sec. 3.6

17 Sep

2:15 pm

Lab3: Text classification 1

Exercises

Last minute help with mandatory assignment 1

19 Sep

2:15 pm

Lec7: HMM-tagging

Presentations

No recordings

The equipment in the room did not work.

Mandatory reading

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.:

Ch. 8, "Part-of-Speech Tagging "
- Sec. 8.0-8.4

24 Sep

2:15 pm

Lab4: Text classification 2

Exercises

26 Sep

2:15 pm

Lec8: Logistic regression

Presentation

Recordings: video | audio only

Mandatory reading

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.:

Ch. 5, "Logisitc Regression"
- We will be light on some of the mathematical details (cf. presentation)

1 Oct

2:15 pm

Lab5

First hour: Jointly look at solutions to exercise set 3 and set 4
Second hour: Start work on mandatory set 2 (= set 5) (to appear)

4 Oct

2:15 pm

Lec9: Sequence labelling, summary so far

Presentation

Recordings: video | audio only

Mandatory reading

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.:

Loose ends from chapters 5 and 8
Chapter 7, sec. 7.0-7.3
Chapter 17, sec. 17.0-17.2

Matthew Honnibal: A Good Part-of-Speech Tagger in about 200 Lines of Python

8 Oct

2:15 pm

Lab6

Joint work on exercise set 6 (=Mandatory assignment 2, part B)
Individual advices on mandatory assignment 2

10 Oct

2:15 pm

Lec10: Vector Semantics - Sparse Vectors

Presentation

Recordings: video | audio only

Mandatory reading

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.:

Chapter 6, sec. 6.1-6.6

15 Oct

2:15 pm

Lab7

Last minute help with mandatory assignment 2

17 Oct

2:15 pm

Lec11: Vector semantics - Word2Vec

Presentation

Mandatory reading

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.:

Chapter 6, sec. 6.7-6.13

Lec12: Phrase structure, grammar and parsing

Presentation

No recording

Mandatory reading

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.:

Chapter 10, sec. 10.0-10.5
Chapter 11. sec. 11.0-11.1

NLTK Book

Ch. 8, sec. (8.)1 Some grammatical dilemmeas-(8.)3 Context-Free Grammar
Ch. 8, sec. (8.)4.2 Shift-Reduce parsing

Lec13: Dependency parsing

Presentation

Recording: video | audio only

Mandatory reading

Nivre, Joakim: "Dependency grammar and dependency parsing" in MSI report 05133. , 2005. V?xj? University: School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering. Sections 1,2,4. On-line copy.
Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.:
- Chapter 13, sec. 13.0-13.4, 13.6-13.7
Nivre, Joakim: "Two Strategies for Text Parsing" in A Man of Measure: Festschrift in Honour of Fred Karlsson on his 60th Birthday., 2006. On-line copy.