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Instructor:
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Rada Mihalcea, Research Park F228, tel: 940-369-7630, email: rada at cs.unt.edu |
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TA:
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Balathasan 'Giri' Giritharan, Research Park F205, email: giri at unt.edu
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Class hours:
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TTh 11:00-12:20pm
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Instructor office hours:
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TTh 4:00-5:00pm or by appointment
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TA office hours:
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W 12:00-2:00pm or by appointment
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Course description:
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This course will cover traditional material, as well as recent advances in the theory and practice of natural language processing (NLP) - the creation of computer programs that can understand, generate, and learn natural language. The course will introduce both knowledge-based and statistical approaches to NLP, illustrate the use of NLP techniques and tools in a variety of application areas, and provide insight into many open research problems.
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Date
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Lecture
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Reading material
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NB
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08/25/11
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Course overview [ppt]
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08/30/11
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Short Perl tutorial (I) [ppt]
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One of the tutorials below [see the "Links" section]
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09/01/11
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Short Perl tutorial (II) [ppt]
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One of the tutorials below [see the "Links" section]
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Perl exercises.
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09/06/11
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Linguistics Essentials [ppt]
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Chap.3 [Manning & Schutze] or any book on English grammar
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-
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09/08/11
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Language Models [ppt]
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Chap.4 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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09/13/11
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Language Models [ppt]
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Chap.4 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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Assignment 1 issued.
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09/15/11
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Language Models [ppt]
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Chap.4 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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09/20/11
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Collocations [ppt]
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Chap.5 [Manning & Schutze]
[a prefinal version of this chapter is available online]
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09/22/11
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No class. Class is replaced by seminar on 09/30 - more information will be posted soon
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09/27/11
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Morphological Processing [ppt]
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Chap.3 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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Assignment 1 due.
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09/29/11
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Word classes and part of speech tagging ppt]
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Chap.5 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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Assignment 2 issued.
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10/04/11
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Word classes and part of speech tagging ppt]
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Chap.5 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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10/06/11
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HMM Tagging. Viterbi Algorithm. [ppt]
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Chap.6 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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10/11/11
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Exam preparation
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All the material studied so far.
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10/13/11
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Exam I.
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All the material studied so far.
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10/18/11
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Context Free Grammars [ppt]
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Chap.12-13 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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Assignment 2 due.
Assignment 3 issued.
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10/20/11
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Parsing with Context Free Grammars [ppt]
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Chap.12-13 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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10/25/11
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Probabilistic Parsing [ppt]
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Chap.14 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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10/27/11
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Word Sense Disambiguation (1) [ppt]
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Chap. 19, 20 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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11/01/11
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Word Sense Disambiguation (2) [ppt]
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Chap.19, 20 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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11/03/11
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Word Sense Disambiguation (3) [ppt]
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Chap.19, 20 [Jurafsky & Martin]
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Assignment 3 due.
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11/08/11
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Text semantic similarity [ppt]
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11/10/11
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Special topics: Subjectivity and sentiment analysis [ppt]
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11/15/11
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Special topics: Subjectivity and sentiment analysis [ppt]
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11/17/11
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No class. Class was replaced by seminar that took place in October.
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11/22/11
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Special topics. Logic form transformation [ppt]
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Assigment 4 due.
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11/24/11
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Thanksgiving. No class.
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11/29/11
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Exam II.
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12/01/11
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Special Topics.
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12/06/11
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Project presentations.
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12/08/11
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Project presentations.
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