Teaching plan

The Monday lectures are 14.15-16 in Java, 2423 OJD

The Wednesday sessions are 10.15-12, normally in Postscript, 2458 OJD, but sometimes in room 3417 Assembler

Lectures and seminars

 

Date Subject Teacher(s) Syllabus

22.08.2011
Monday

Introduction
Practical information
"Looking at text"

J.T.L?nning

L. ?vrelid

29.08.2011
Monday

Statistics for NLP JTL

31.08.2011
Wednesday
Assembler, room 3417

Looking at text and statistics JTL
  • NLTK 1.1-1.3, 1.5, 2.1-2.2 (you have to work through this on the computer).
  • We will work through parts of this. Please take a look at the text and the program before the class.
  • We also covered NLTK sec. 3.1 in class.

05.09.2011
Monday

Collocations and
hypothesis testing
JTL

07.09.2011
Wednesday
Postscript, 2458 OJD

Statistics for NLP

Exercises

JTL

Exercises from Nivre's web course

If you're not familiar with statistics, do as much as you can before class

12.09.2011
Monday

Collocations, association measures, information theory  

14.09.2011

Assembler, room 3417

   

19.09.2011
Monday

Concluding collocations
Information theory
JTL
  • FSNLP, Ch. 5
  • FSNLP, Sec. 2.2

21.09.2011
Wednesday Assembler,
room 3417

  JTL
  • Work on obligatory assignment 1:
    exercise 3
  • Exercises

26.09.2011
Monday

Learning: supervised
Naive Bayes classificator
Evaluation measures
JTL
  • FSNLP, Ch. 7.1-2
  • FSNLP, Ch. 8.1
  • NLTK 6.1-5
  • Manning, Raghavan, Schütze, IIR, Ch. 13

28.09.2011
Wednesday
Assembler,
room 3417

   

03.10.2011
Monday

Semantic similarity JTL
  • FSNLP Ch. 8.5
  • Recommended additional reading, Jurafsky&Martin, sec. 20.7

05.10.2011
Wednesday
Assembler,
room 3417

   

10.10.2011
Monday

Dependency grammar L?
  • Nivre: "Dependency Grammar and Dependency Parsing", sec 1, 2, 4
  • Zwicky: "Heads", sec 1-2
  • Slides

12.10.2011
Wednesday

Postscript, 2458 OJD

Dependency parsing L?
  • Nivre: "Two Strategies for Text Parsing"
  • Nivre et. al.: "MaltParser: A language-independent..." sec 1-4.1
  • Slides

17.10.2011
Monday

NO LECTURE    

19.10.2011
Wednesday

Assembler,
room 3417

Experimental design, project work L?

24.10.2011
Monday

CANCELLED L?  

26.10.2011
Wednesday

     

31.10.2011
Monday

Semantic roles

L?
  • Dowty: "Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection", sec 1-9
  • Fillmore: "The case for case reopened"
  • Slides

0.2.11.2011
Wednesday

     

07.11.2011
Monday

Semantic role labeling

L?
  • Gildea & Jurafsky: "Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles"
  • Marquez et. al.: "Semantic Role Labeling: An Introduction to the Special Issue"
  • Johansson & Nugues: "Dependency-based Syntactic–Semantic Analysis with PropBank and NomBank"
  • Slides

09.11.2011
Wednesday

     

14.11.2011
Monday

Vector space models, IR, classification and clustering

JTL
  • FSNLP, Ch. 15.2, 16.4, 14.2: intro+14.2.1
  • Manning et. al., IIR, Ch. 14-14.3
  • Recommended additional reading, Jurafsky&Martin, sec. 6.6 (except 6.6.4), 23.1
  • Presentation

16.11.2011
Wednesday

     

21.11.2011
Monday

Maximum entropy classifiers JTL

23.11.2011
Wednesday
Postscript, 2458 OJD

Tutorial on obligatory assignment 2 JTL  

28.11.2011
Monday

Maxent tagging
Glimpses beyond, Summing up

JTL

30.11.2011
Wednesday
Postscript, 2458 OJD

Presentations by PhDs    

7.12.2011
Wednesday
Postscript, 2458 OJD

Exercises  

 

 

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