instructor: Dave Kauchak
e-mail: David.last_name@pomona.edu
office hours: TBA
and by appointment
time: T/Th 12:45 - 2pm
web page: http://www.cs.pomona.edu/classes/cs159/
textbook:
| Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/25 | introduction (ppt) | Ch. 1 | Assignment 0 | Due: Thursday, 8/27 |
| 8/27 | corpus analysis (ppt), regular expressions (ppt) | Ch. 2-2.4 | Assignment 1 | Due: Wednesday, 9/2 |
| 9/1 | probability (ppt) | |||
| 9/3 | language modeling (ppt) | Ch. 3-3.4 | Assignment 2a - 2b | A - Due: Thursday, 9/10 B - Due: Wednesday, 9/16 |
| 9/8 | LM smoothing (ppt) discount example | Ch. 3.4-3.6 | ||
| 9/10 | LM lab | |||
| 9/15 | syntax basics (ppt) | Ch. 8-8.3, 10-10.2 | Assignment 3 | Due: Wednesday 9/23 |
| 9/17 | grammars (ppt) | Ch. 11-11.2 | Quiz 1 | |
| 9/22 | parsing (ppt) | Ch. 12-12.4 | ||
| 9/24 | improved parsing (ppt) | Ch. 12.5-12.11 | Assignment 4a - 4b | A - Due: Monday 9/28 B - Due: Wednesday 10/7 |
| 9/29 | parsing lab | |||
| 10/1 | text similarity (ppt) | Ch. 6-6.7 | ||
| 10/6 | word similarity (ppt) | Ch. C-C.2 | Assignment 5 | A - Due: Monday 10/12 B - Due: Monday 10/19 |
| 10/8 | machine translation (ppt) | Quiz 2 | ||
| 10/13 | MT - word alignment (ppt) | IBM 1-2 | ||
| 10/15 | MT - more word alignment (ppt) | |||
| 10/20 | MT concluded (ppt) | Daume 1-1.2 | Assignment 6 | A - Due: Monday 10/26 B - Due: Monday 11/2 |
| 10/22 | ML basics (ppt) | Manning 13.1-13.4 | ||
| 10/27 | ML - NB (ppt) | |||
| 10/29 | ML - NB continued (ppt) | Final project | ||
| 11/3 | election day! | Assignment 7 | Due: Wednesday 11/11 | |
| 11/5 | ML - other models (ppt | Ch. 7-7.3 | ||
| 11/10 | neural networks (ppt) | Ch. 7.4 | Quiz 3 | |
| 11/12 | backpropogation | |||
| 11/17 | neural nets applied (ppt) | |||
| 11/19 | ethics | paper 1, paper 2 | ||
| 11/24 | project presentations |
Quiz 4