University of Washington: Linguistics: LING 575: Spring 2014: Syllabus

LING 575 - Linguistics Expressions of Sentiment, Subjectivity, and Stance
Spring 2014
Syllabus

Days	Time (P.M.)	Classroom
Tuesdays	3:30-5:50	SAV 138

	Instructor
Name:	Gina-Anne Levow
Email:	levow@uw.edu
Office:	Guggenheim 418D
Office Hours:	Fridays 12:30-1:30pm or by appointment Skype or Adobe, too

Course Resources

GoPost Class Discussion Board
CollectIt Assignment Drop Box
Adobe Connect Meeting Room
Gradebook
Link page for project resources

Course description

People frequently express attitudes in text and speech, and recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of natural language processing techniques to identify these attitudes. Tasks include automatically analyzing reviews for films or products, detecting bias in news articles, or determining the tenor of a meeting or customer service call. This course will explore the main issues and approaches in expression and automatic recognition of sentiment in both written and spoken language. Student projects include implementation of methods for automatic recognition as well as analysis of linguistic phenomena associated sentiment, subjectivity, and stance.

Textbook

There is no required textbook. Instead, the course readings will be drawn from contemporary articles and tutorials available online. Helpful background material can also be found in:

Opinion mining and sentiment analysis, Bo Pang and Lillian Lee, Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 2(1-2), pp. 1-135, 2008.
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Bing Liu, Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2012.
Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, 2nd edition, by Daniel Jurafsky and James Martin. (J&M)

Prerequisites:

No specific prerequisites, though prior programming experience will be helpful.

Grading

60%: Homework Assignments and Project
30%: In-Class Presentations
10%: Class participation

Homework

Homework in the class includes critical reading assignments and small targeted exercises.

Projects & Presentations

All students will be expected to help lead discussion on a topic during the term. Projects and presentations should be completed in small groups (2-3), A list of presentation topics linked to related readings may be found here. The page also includes a guidelines and advice for presentations and critical reading assignments. An overview of project types and possible project topics is available here. NOTE: If you are taking this course to satisfy a Linguistics elective requirement, you must complete a project with a substantial linguistic analysis and a corresponding analytic term paper. Please let me know when you select your topic.

Course Mechanics

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

Schedule In Progress

Date	Topics	Readings	Assignment out	Slides	Adobe Connect Recording
April 1	Intro to Sentiment, Subjectivity, and Stance; Overview	Pang and Lee, Ch. 1-3		Intro	4/1_online
April 8	From Words to Discourse & Pragmatics	Pang and Lee, Ch. 4.	Enter presentation topics on GoPost: Due 4/17	Features	4/8_online
April 15	From Text to Tweets to Speech Guest Lecture: Valerie Freeman	Freeman, 2014; JPhon, 2014	Enter project topics on GoPost: Due 4/22	Stance in Speech Genres	4/15_online
April 22	Topic Presentations Review Mining (3x)		Submit Critical Reading Assignment	Overview (Phan) Pros & Cons (Hart,Miljanic) Helpful reviews (He, Sato)	4/22_Online
April 29	Topic Presentations Aspects and Objects Joint Models Recognizing Stances, Arguments, and Viewpoints			Aspects (Gordon, Kramer) Joint Models (Trimble, Wei) Stance (Morrison, Chan)	4/29_online
May 6	Topic Presentations Topics & Holders (2x) Phrase-level contextual sentiment		Intermediate Project Report Due May 13, 2014 Prepare evelator pitches for next week!	Topics and Mining (Roylance) Sentiment and Stocks (Waltner) Holders, Targets, and Topics(Cooper, Simpson) Phrase-level Contextual Sentiment (Bielby, Hsu)	5/6_Online
May 13	Project Elevator Pitches (<2 mins each) Topic Presentations Sentiment in Speech Agreement & Disagreement in Speech		Final Project Specifications	Agreement & Disagreement in Speech (Jaja, Kahn, Koncel-Kedziorski) Sentiment in Speech (Carter, Elshenawy)	5/13_Online
May 20	Topic Presentations Graph-based models Domain adaptation Lexicon induction			Lexicon Induction (Bolla, Whelan) Graph-based Models (Benak, Peters) Domain Adaptation (Harte)	5/20_online
May 27	Guest Speaker: Prof. Wright Topic Presentations Recognizing opinion spam Applications Affect			Opinion Spam (Aldrich, Antoniak, Bothale) Summarization and Sentiment (Chen, Kaufmann, McLain)	5/27_online
June 3	Final Project Presentations 5 minutes each; send slides in advance !!			Bolla,Whelan video Harte audio	6/3_online

LING 575 - Linguistics Expressions of Sentiment, Subjectivity, and Stance Spring 2014 Syllabus