Week |
Topics |
Readings |
Week 1: September 4 |
Preliminaries |
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Week 2: September 8-11 |
Linguistics Essentials |
Chap. 1, 2 & 3 |
Week 3: September 15-18 |
Mathematical Foundations II: Information Theory |
Chap. 2 & 4 |
Week 4: September 22-25 |
Collocations
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Chap. 5
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Week 5: September 29 - October 2 |
Statistical Inference
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Chap. 6
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Week 6: October 6-9 |
Word Sense Disambiguation
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Chap. 7 &
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Week 7: October 13-16 |
Lexical Acquistion
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Chap. 8
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Week 8: October 20-23 |
MidTerm Week (Review + Exam) |
Chaps. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 |
Week 9: October 27-30 |
Markov Models
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Chap. 9
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Week 10: November 3-6 |
Part-of-Speech Tagging |
Chap. 10
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Week 11: November 10-13 |
Probabilistic Context Free Grammars
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Chap. 9 & 11 |
Week 12: November 17-20 |
Probabilistic Parsing |
Chap. 12 |
Week 13: November 24-27 |
Statistical Alignment & Machine Translation;
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Chap. 13
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