J-Term 2004 Schedule
| Date | Topics (assocated reading) | Labs & Homework |
| Wed 1/7 | Course intro (syllabus) Intro to CL/NLP (1-18) Fundamentals of linguistics |
Weblog |
| Thu 1/8 | Regular Expressions (19-33) Eliza & kin Prolog Intro [background, hello_world, path, hanoi, sheeptalk] Finite state automata -- FSA's (33-56) |
Regular Expressions FSA recognizer: Pet Shop English 1 HW: p. 53 ex 2.1 a-f |
| Fri 1/9 | Corpus linguistics English Morphology (57-65) |
Corpus Research FST agreement checking: PSE 2 |
| Mon 1/12 | Finite state transducers -- FST's (65-79) FST's & morphological parsing Misc morphology (79-90) |
FST morphological parser: Esperanto |
| Tue 1/13 | Lexical classes (285-298) Exam 1 (notes) |
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| Wed 1/14 | POS Tagging (298-303) | Two-stage POS tagging Prolog list processing |
| Thu 1/15 | Syntax, CFG's (323-332) English syntax (332-341) Subcategorization (342-356) |
Prolog grammar notation |
| Fri 1/16 | Parsing as search (357-364) Parser problems (364-377) Intro to group projects. |
Parsing in prolog |
| Mon 1/19 | MLK Day -- take a break! | |
| Tue 1/20 | Intro Semantics (499-510) Statement logic Exam 2 |
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| Wed 1/21 | FOPC (510-538) Misc semantics (538-544) |
Practice with FOPC |
| Thu 1/22 | Syntax-driven semantic analysis (545-558) Semantics for a fragment of English (558-569) Misc semantics (569-588) |
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| Fri 1/23 | Field trip to helpingCURE.org | |
| Mon 1/26 | Properties of formal systems; Montague Semantics Lexical semantics, meaning relationships (589-601) WordNet, selectional restrictions, Frames (602-623) Misc Lexical semantics (623-629) |
Building a model for a subset of English |
| Tue 1/27 | KR & CYC Exam 3 |
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| Wed 1/28 | Group Presentations |