Week 1
Jan 4
Slides: Intro lecture, Context free grammar
Adobe Connect Recording: Jan 4
Readings: J&M 1, 12, TreeBank tagging guide, TreeBank bracketing guide
Assignment: hw1 due Jan 12th
Jan 6
Adobe Connect Recording: Jan 6
Readings: Giazauskas (1995)
Week 2
Jan 11
Slides: Context free grammars, intro to parsing
Adobe Connect Recording: Jan 11
Readings: J&M 13-13.4.1
Assignment: hw2 due Jan. 19th
Jan 13
Slides: CKY, 2CNF
Adobe Connect Recording: ` Jan 13 <http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/p13229056/>`_
Readings: CKY algorithm
Week 3
Jan 18
MLK Day, No Class
Assignment: work on hw2
Jan 20
Slides: PCFGs (consolidated, one file)
Adobe Connect Recording Jan 20
Readings: J&M 13.4.2-13.6, J&M 14-14.2
Week 4
Jan 25
Slides: EVALB, improving PCKY Adobe Connect Recording: Jan 25
Readings: J&M 14.3-14.11, KleinManning (2003), MohriRoark (2006) . And see this good write-up of the f-measure.
Assignment: hw3 due Feb 2nd
Jan 27
Slides: Refer to Jan 25 slides, and Earley algorithm (revised)
Adobe Connect Recording: Jan 27
Readings: J&M 13.4.2
Week 5
Feb 1
Slides: (refer to Jan. 27 revised slides), and feature structures
Adobe Connect Recording: Feb 1
Readings: J&M 15
Assignment: hw4 due Feb. 9th
Feb 3
Slides: Parsing with features
Adobe Connect Recording: Feb 3
Readings: NLTK Book Chap09
Week 6
Feb 8
Slides: Features, wrap-up , Intro to semantics
Adobe Connect Recording: Feb 8
Readings: J&M 17-17.3, ForAllX Chap 1–4
Feb 10
Slides: Intro to computational semantics, logic
Adobe Connect Recording: Feb 10 make-up slides
Readings: J&M 17.4, sections 10–10.3
Week 7
Feb 15
NO CLASS: President’s Day
Feb 17
Slides: Natural language to logic
Adobe Connect Recording: Feb 17 recording
Readings: J&M 18
Assignment: hw5 due Feb. 23rd
Week 8
Feb 22
Slides: More logic and events
Adobe Connect Recording: partial recording for Feb22, full recording to be posted soon
Readings: Continue with ForAllX, J&M Chap 18
Feb 24
Slides: lambda calculus
Adobe Connect Recording: Feb 24
Readings: Continue with ForAllX, J&M Chap 18, Short intro to lambda calculus
Assignment: hw6 Mar 4
Week 9
Mar 1
Slides: More lambda calculus
Adobe Connect Recording: Mar 1 recording
Assignment: hw7 due Mar. 16th
Mar 3
Slides: Intro to NLG
Adobe Connect Recording: Mar3 recording
Readings: Start looking at SimpleNLG (v. 4)
Week 10
Mar 8
Slides: NLG, text planning, microplanning
Adobe Connect Recording: Mar 8
Mar 10
Slides: NLG, surface realization
Adobe Connect Recording: Mar 10
Week 11
Mar 15
Exam week no class
Mar 17
No final exam