University of Washington: Linguistics: LING 573 Spring 2015: Syllabus

LING 573 - Natural Language Processing Systems and Applications
Spring 2015
Syllabus

Days	Time (P.M.)	Classroom
Tuesdays and Thursdays	1:30-2:50	SAV 130

	Instructor	Teaching Assistant
Name:	Gina-Anne Levow	Glenn Slayden
Email:	levow at uw dot edu	gslayden at uw dot edu
Office:	Guggenheim 418D	Guggenheim TA space
Office Hour:	Fridays 12:30-1:30pm, or by appointment	TBD

Course description

This course examines building coherent systems to handle practical applications. Particular topics vary.

Course Resources

Course Gradebook
CollectIt dropbox
(for instructor feedback only; do not submit assignments here)
GoPost Class Discussion Board
Adobe Connect Meeting Room
Software resource list

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 571, 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

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: March 31, April		J & M 23-23.2 [Hirschman and Gaizauskas, 2001]	Deliverable #1 out: 4/2 Due April 8, 11:59 pm	Intro Overview	April 1 April 3
April 8, 10	System Strategies	[Harabagiu et al., 2005] [Lin, 2007]	Deliverable #2 out	Shallow systems Deep Systems & IR	April 8 April 10
Week 3: April 15, 17	Search and Passage Retrieval	J&M, Ch. 23.1 (4/15) Documentation for lemur/indri, esp. see QuickStart [Xu and Croft, 1996] (4/17) [Tellex et al, 2003] (4/17)		IR Expansion & Reranking	April 15 April 17
Week 4: April 22	Question Processing	Li and Roth, 2005 [Hacioglu and Ward, 2003]		Question Classification	April 22
Week 4: April 24	No class: NW-NLP 2015 @ Microsoft		Deliverable #3 out
Week 5: April 29, May 1	Deliverable #2 presentations			Packard, Trimble, Bolla Bothale, Chan, Wei Aldrich, Benak, Hogoboom Antoniak, He, Lockwood, Park Carter, Elshanawy, Kramer Gordon, Kahn, Jaja Curtis, Kilmer, McHugh Bielby, Hsu Bhalla, Hart, Kamali	April 29 May 1
Week 6: May 6,8	Question Processing; Question classification Query formulation Query Expansion	[Krishnan et al, 2005] (5/6) [Huang, Thint, Qin, 2008] (5/6) [Kwok, Etzioni, and Weld, 2001] (5/8) [Fang, 2008] (5/8) Bilotti et al, 2004 Riezler et al, 2007		Question Classification Question Reformulation	May 6 May 8
Week 7: May 13, 15	Answer Extraction	[Echihabi et al, 2005] [Mishne and De Rijk, 2005] [Razmara et al, 2007] Yao et al, 2013		Answer extraction Extraction w/CRF	May 13 May 15
Week 8: May 20, 22	Deliverable 3 project presentations		Deliverable #4 out	Bolla, Packard, Trimble Antoniak, He, Lockwood, Park Aldrich, Benak, Hogoboom Bhalla, Hart, Kamali Bothale, Chan, Wei Curtis, Kilmer, McHugh Carter, Elshenawy, Kramer Bielby, Hsu Gordon, Jaja, Kahn	May 20 May 22
Week 9: May 27, 29	Answer extraction, ranking Beyond Factoid QA	[Shen and Lapata, 2007] [Ferrucci-et-al:2010] [Mintz-et-al:2009] [Becker-et-al:2012]		Watson Distant supervision Machine Reading	May 27 May 29
Week 10: June 3, 5	Final presentations				June 3 June 5

LING 573 - Natural Language Processing Systems and Applications Spring 2015 Syllabus