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CIS 8538 Course Schedule

This is the planned schedule, but it may change.

Readings are listed on the day they are due. Read them before class -- your comments in class count towards your grade.

Week Lecture (Thursday) Links
Week 1:
 Everything you ever wanted to know about computational linguistics, in one class!
(a.k.a. Course Overview)

Introduction to Information Retrieval

Reading: Chapters 1 and 2 of the Introduction to Information Retrieval
 		Course Syllabus

Open NLP Project
LingPipe Project
Week 2:
 Information Retrieval

Reading: Chapters 6 and 12 of the Introduction to Information Retrieval
 		Snowball Stemming Software
Apache Lucene Open-source Search Engine
Lemur Project
Week 3:
 Introduction to Text Classification with logistic regression

Reading: Chapters 13, 14, and 15 of the Introduction to Information Retrieval
 		SVM Light
LibSVM
MALLET Project (includes MaxEnt, Naive Bayes, other things)
Hal Daume's MaxEnt software
Week 4:
 SVD, LSI, LDA --- acronyms, oh my!

Reading: Chapter 18 of the Introduction to Information Retrieval
and Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Week 5:
 Information Extraction 1

Reading: Unsupervised Named-Entity Extraction from the Web
(read everything, but skim sections 3-5)
Week 6:
 Ngrams, Markov models, and Hidden Markov Models

Reading:
Joshua Goodman's Tutorial on Ngram Models
(Read sections 1 and 3, and the Kneser-Ney Smoothing portion of section 2. Check out the rest if it interests you.)
HMM Tutorial (Read sections 1-3.) 		Joshua Goodman's PPT Tutorial on Ngram Models
SRI Language Modeling Toolkit
Java HMM software
Week 7:
 Supervised Sequence Labeling

Reading:
CRF Tutorial 		Java CRF package
Week 8:
 Advanced Topics 1: Representations and Domain Adaptation

Reading:
Distributional Representations for Handling Sparsity in Supervised Sequence Labeling
Exploring Representation-Learning Approaches to Domain Adaptation
Week 9:
 Midterm and Projects
Week 10:
 Grammar and Parsing

Reading:
C.D. Manning & H. Schuetze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999
Chapters 11 and 12.1.1-12.1.4, 12.1.7, and 12.1.8 (available online free if accessed from Temple computers) 		Stanford Parser
Week 11:
 Parsing (continued) and Grammar Induction

Reading:
Corpus-Based Induction of Syntactic Structure
Week 12:
 Shallow Semantics

Reading: Dan Gildea's Semantic Role Labeling paper (Read sections 1-6)
 SwiRL, Mihai Surdeanu's GPL semantic role labeling software
UIUC's semantic role labeling demo
Week 13:
 Semantics

Reading:
An introduction to formal computational semantics
Parsing to Logical Form
Week 14:
 Question Answering

Reading: Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project
Week 15:
 Final Project Report due on Monday, May 10 at 6p.m.!