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CIS 8590 Course Schedule

This is the planned schedule, but it may change.

Readings are listed on the day they are due.

Week Lecture (Thursday) Links
Week 1:
9/1-9/5 		Everything you ever wanted to know about linguistics, in one class!
(a.k.a. Course Overview)
 Course Syllabus
Week 2:
9/8-9/12 		Review: Probability and Statistics

General NLP Methods: Graphical Models 1

Reading: Graphical Models in a Nutshell
Week 3:
9/15-9/19 		General NLP Methods: Graphical Models 2

Reading: HMM Tutorial
Week 4:
9/22-9/26 		General NLP Methods: Clustering

Reading: Clustering Tutorial
Week 5:
9/29-10/3 		Information Retrieval 1

Reading: Index Construction (up through section 4)
Scoring, term weighting & the vector space model
Week 6:
10/6-10/10 		Information Retrieval 2

Reading: Pseudo-relevance Feedback
Collaborative Filtering
Week 7:
10/13-10/17 		Information Extraction 1

Reading: IE by Pattern Matching and Bootstrapping
Named-Entity Recognition with Conditional Random Fields
Week 8:
10/20-10/24 		Information Extraction 2

Reading: Unsupervised Extraction of Named Entities from the Web
Extracting Classes and Attributes from Web Documents and Query Logs
Week 9:
10/27-10/31 		Class cancelled (I'll be at a conference)
Week 10:
11/3-11/7 		Open Information Extraction

Mid-term Project Report due!

Reading: Preemptive Information Extraction
Unsupervised Discovery of Generic Relationships
Week 11:
11/10-11/14 		Sentiment Extraction

Reading: Sentiment Extraction from Unstructured Text Using Tabu Search-Enhanced Markov Blanket
Week 12:
11/17-11/21 		Handling Synonymy and Polysemy

Reading: Broad Coverage Sense Disambiguation and Information Extraction with a Supersense Sequence Tagger
Unsupervised Resolution of Objects and Relations on the Web
Week 13:
11/24-11/28 		Coreference Resolution

Reading: Improving Machine Learning Approaches to Coreference Resolution
Unsupervised Models for Coreference Resolution

Thanksgiving Week
Week 14:
12/1-12/5 		Project Presentations!
Week 15:
12/8-12/12 		No class: study day.
Week 16:
12/15-12/19 		Final Project Report due on Monday, Dec. 15 at 6p.m.!