instructor: Dave Kauchak
e-mail: David.[last_name]@pomona.edu
office hours: Edmunds 224
Mon 3-4pm
Wed 3-4pm
Thu 9:30-10:30am
and by appointment
mentor hours:
Tuesday 6-9pm: Sumi
web page: http://www.cs.pomona.edu/classes/cs159/
textbook:
| Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/27 | introduction | Ch 1 | Assign 0 (.tex) | Due: Thursday, 8/29 |
| 8/29 | regular expressions (ppt), corpus analysis (ppt) | Ch 2-2.4 | Assign 1 (.tex) | Due: Wednesday, 9/4 |
| 9/3 | probability (ppt) | |||
| 9/5 | language modeling (ppt) | Ch 3-3.4 | Assign 2a (.tex) - 2b (.tex) | A - Due: Thursday, 9/12 B - Due: Wednesday, 9/18 |
| 9/10 | LM smoothing (ppt) - discounting example | Ch 3.4-3.6 | ||
| 9/12 | LM lab | |||
| 9/17 | syntax basics (ppt) | Ch 8-8.3, 10-10.2 | Assign 3 (.tex) | Due: Sunday, 9/29 |
| 9/19 | grammars (see slides on 9/17) | Ch 11-11.2 | Quiz 1 | |
| 9/24 | parsing (ppt) | Ch 18-18.4 | ||
| 9/26 | improved parsing (ppt) | Ch 18.5-18.10 (except 18.7) | Assignment 4a - 4b | A - Due: Tuesday, 10/1 B - Due: Wednesday, 10/9 |
| 10/1 | parsing lab | |||
| 10/3 | text similarity (ppt) | Ch 6-6.7 | ||
| 10/8 | word similarity (ppt) | Assignment 5 | A - Due: Thursday, 10/17 B - Due: Wednesday, 10/23 |
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| 10/10 | neural networks (ppt) | Ch 7-7.4 | Quiz 2 | |
| 10/15 | fall break | |||
| 10/17 | word representation (ppt) | Ch 6.8-6.11 | ||
| 10/22 | machine translation | Ch 13-13.2 | ||
| 10/24 | MT word alignment (ppt) | Assignment 6 | Due: Sunday, 11/3 | |
| 10/29 | machine learning (ppt) | |||
| 10/31 | ML - Naive Bayes (ppt) | Ch 4-4.3 | 11/5 | ML - other models (ppt) | Assignment 7 | Due: Wednesday, 11/13 |
| 11/7 | final project details, slides (ppt) | Quiz 3 | ||
| 11/12 | large language models (ppt), project proposal presentations | |||
| 11/14 | ML Lab | 11/19 | ethics discussion | LLMs (full article), profiling, data use |
| 11/21 | text simplification (ppt) | |||
| 11/26 | project work session | |||
| 11/28 | Thanksgiving | |||
| 12/3 | project presentations |