University of Washington: Linguistics: LING 573 Spring 2013: Syllabus

LING 573 - Natural Language Processing Systems and Applications
Spring 2013
Syllabus

Days	Time (P.M.)	Classroom
Tuesdays and Thursdays	1:30-2:50	THO 135

	Instructor	Teaching Assistant
Name:	Gina-Anne Levow	Ryan Georgi
Email:	levow at uw dot edu	ling573 at rgeorgi dot e4ward dot com
Office:	Padelford B-201	Condon 223J
Office Hour:	Wed: 12:30-1:30	Tues: 3-4pm; Treehouse

Course description

This course examines building coherent systems to handle practical applications. Particular topics vary. This term we will be focusing on question-answering.

Textbook

There is no required textbook for this course. However, you may find the following reference texts useful.

Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, 2nd edition, by Daniel Jurafsky and James Martin.
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Chris Manning and Hinrich Schutze.

A number of published research articles will also provide background for the course. The articles are linked from the syllabus below, and the full citations are found in the reading list.

Prerequisites:

Ling 570, Ling 572
CS 326 (Data Structures) or equivalent
Stat 391 (Probability and Statistics for CS) or equivalent
Formal grammars, languages, and automata
Programming in one or more of Java, Python, C/C++, or Perl
Linux/Unix commands

Course Resources

Course Gradebook
GoPost Class Discussion Board
Drop Box
Adobe Connect Meeting Room
Software resource list

Grading

90%: Project Deliverables and Presentations
10%: Class participation

Course Mechanics

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

Tentative schedule, subject to change without notice.

Date	Topics	Readings	Assignment out	Slides	Adobe Connect Recording
Week 1: April 2,4	Intro to TREC/TAC, Retrieval Q/A & Watson Task; Software	J & M 23-23.2 [Hirschman and Gaizauskas, 2001] [Ferrucci-et-al:2010]	Deliverable #1 out: 4/3 Due April 9, 11:59 pm	4/1_pptx 4/1_pdf 4/3_pptx 4/3_pdf	4/1_Online 4/3_Online
April 9	System Strategies	[Harabagiu et al., 2005] [Lin, 2007]	Deliverable #2 out	pptx pdf	Online
Week 2,3: April 11, 16, 18	Search and Passage Retrieval	J&M, Ch. 23.1 (4/11) Documentation for lemur/indri, esp. see QuickStart (4/11) [Tellex et al, 2003] (4/16) [Xu and Croft, 1996] (4/16) [Tiedemann et al, 2008] (4/18) [Khalid and Verberne, 2008] (4/18) [Aktolga et al, 2011] (4/18)		4/11_pptx 4/11_pdf 4/16_pptx 4/16_pdf 4/18_pptx 4/18_pdf	4/11_Online 4/16_Online 4/18_Online
Week 4: April 23, 25	Deliverable 2 presentations Question classification	Li and Roth, 2005	Deliverable #3 out	4/25_pptx 4/25_pdf	4/23_Online 4/25_Online
Week 5: April 30, May 2	Question Processing; Question classification Query formulation	[Hacioglu and Ward, 2003] (4/30) [Krishnan et al, 2005] (4/30) ,[Huang, Thint, Qin, 2008] (4/30) [Zhang and Lee, 2003] (5/2) [Kwok, Etzioni, and Weld, 2001] (5/2) [Fang, 2008] (5/2) Bilotti et al, 2004(5/2)		4/30_pptx 4/30_pdf 5/2_pptx 5/2_pdf	4/30_online 5/2_Online
Week 6: May 7	Question Processing; Question classification Query formulation	Stoyanchev et al, 2008 Riezler et al, 2007		5/7_pptx 5/7_pdf	5/7_Online
Week 6: May 9	Answer Extraction	[Ravichandran and Hovy,2002] [Echihabi et al, 2005] [Ravichandran et al, 2003]		5/9_pptx 5/9_pdf	5/9_online
Week 7: May 14, 16	Deliverable 3 project presentations		Deliverable #4 out	5/16_pptx 5/16_pdf	5/14_online 5/16_online
Week 8: May 21, 23 Week 9: May 28, 30	Answer extraction, ranking
Week 10: June 4, 6	Final presentations

LING 573 - Natural Language Processing Systems and Applications Spring 2013 Syllabus