LING 571 - Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing
Winter 2011
Syllabus


Days Time (P.M.) Classroom
Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30-4:50 Loew 216

Instructor Teaching Assistant
Name: Gina-Anne Levow Sanghoun Song
Email: levow@uw.edu sanghoun@uw.edu
Office: Padelford B-201 Lewis Annex 110
Office Hour: F: 10am-11 M: 10:30am-12

Course description

This course covers algorithms for associating deep or elaborated linguistic structures with naturally occurring data, covering parsing, semantics, and discourse.

Textbook

The course textbook is Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, 2nd edition, by Daniel Jurafsky and James Martin.

Prerequisites:

Course Resources

Grading

Course Mechanics

Additional detailed information on grading, collaboration, incompletes, etc.


Tentative schedule, subject to change without notice.
Date Topics Jurafsky &
Martin
Additional
Readings
Assignment
out
Slides Adobe Connect
Recording
January 3 Intro to Deep Processing for NLP; Syntax Chapter 1, 12     pptx pdf Recording
January 5 CFGs and Parsing Chapter 12, 13.1   HW1: Due 1/11 pptx pdf
pptx2 pdf2
Recording
January 10 CFGs and Parsing; CKY; CNF Chapter 13-13.4.1     pptx pdf Recording
January 12 Parsing; CKY; Earley Chapter 13.4.2-13.4.3   HW#2;Due Jan 25 pptx pdf Recording
January 17 Martin Luther King Day No Class        
January 19 Probabilistic and Lexicalized CFGs Chapter 14-14.2     pptx pdf Recording
January 24 Probabilistic and Lexicalized CFGs Chapter 14.3-14.11     ppt pdf Recording
January 26 PCFGs: evaluation; improvement     HW#3:Due Feb 1 pptx1 pptx2 Recording
January 31 Features Chapter 15-15.4     pptx pdf Recording
February 2 Parsing with features; Intro to Semantics Chapter 15.5-15.7 NLTK Book, Ch. 9 HW#4: Due Feb. 8 pptx1 pdf1
pptx2 pdf2
Recording
Offline Recordings
February 7 Semantics Chapter 17     pptx pdf Recording Offline Recording
February 9 Semantics; Lexical Semantics Chapter 18   HW#5: Due Feb 22 pptx pdf Recording Offline Recording
February 14 Semantics II
Lexical Semantics
Chapter 18, 19, 20     pptx pdf Recording Offline Recording
February 16 WordNet;
Word Sense Disambiguation
Chapter 20     pptx pdf Recordings Offline Recording
February 21 Presidents' Day Holiday No class        
February 23 Word Sense Disambiguation Chapter 21-21.2     pptx pdf Recording Offline Recording
February 28 Word Sense Disambiguation Chapter 21.3-21.11 Resnik WSD HW#6: Due March 8 pptx pdf Recording Offline Recording
March 2 Computational Discourse
Reference
Chapter 21.4-21.8     pptx pdf Recording Offline Recording
Recording problem
Alignment/Start
March 7 Computational Discourse
Structure
Chapter 21.1-21.3   HW#7: Due March 15 pptx pdf Recording Offline Recording
March 9 Question-Answering Chapter 23.2     pptx pdf Recording Offline Recording