instructor: Dave Kauchak
e-mail: David.[last_name]@pomona.edu
office hours: Edmunds 224
Tue, Thu - 9:30-11am
Fri - 9 - 10am
and by appointment
mentor hours: Sam: Thu - 7-9pm (Edmunds upstairs)
time: M/W 1:15-2:30pm
location: Edmunds 101
web page: http://www.cs.pomona.edu/classes/cs159/
textbook:
| Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/18 | introduction (ppt) | Ch. 1 | Assignment 0 | Due: Friday 1/20 @ 5pm |
| 1/23 | regular expressions (ppt), corpus analysis (ppt) | Ch. 2-2.4 | Assignment 1 | Due: Monday 1/30 @ 1pm |
| 1/25 | probability (ppt) | |||
| 1/30 | language modeling (ppt) | Ch. 3-3.4 | Assignment 2a (solution) - 2b | A Due: Friday 2/3 @ 5pm B Due: Friday 2/10 @ 5pm |
| 2/1 | LM smoothing (ppt) discount example | Ch. 3.4-3.6 | ||
| 2/6 | LM lab | |||
| 2/8 | syntax basics (ppt) | Ch. 17-17.3 | Assignment 3 | Due: Monday 2/20 @ 1pm |
| 2/13 | grammars ppt | Quiz 1 | ||
| 2/15 | parsing (ppt) | Ch. 17.4-17.6 | ||
| 2/20 | improved parsing (ppt) | Ch. 17.8 | Assignment 4a (solution) - 4b | A Due: Wednesday 2/22 @ 1pm B Due: Friday 3/3 @ 5pm |
| 2/22 | parsing lab | |||
| 2/27 | text similarity (ppt) | Ch. 6-6.7 | ||
| 3/1 | word similarity (ppt) | |||
| 3/6 | neural networks (ppt) | Ch. 7-7.4 | Assignment 5 (5a solutions) | A Due: Friday 3/10 @ 5pm B Due: Monday 3/27 @ 1pm |
| 3/8 | Quiz only | Quiz 2 | ||
| 3/13 | Break | |||
| 3/15 | Break | |||
| 3/20 | word representations (ppt) | Ch. 6.8-6.11 | ||
| 3/22 | machine translation (ppt) | Ch. 13-13.2 | ||
| 3/27 | MT - word alignment (ppt) | Assignment 6 | Due: Friday 4/7 @ 5pm | |
| 3/29 | MT - misc (ppt) | |||
| 4/3 | machine learning (ppt) | |||
| 4/5 | ML - Naive Bayes (ppt) | Ch. 4-4.3 | ||
| 4/10 | final project details | Quiz 3 | ||
| 4/12 | ML - other models (ppt) | Assignment 7 | Due: Monday 4/17 @ 5pm | |
| 4/17 | ML lab, project proposal presentations | final project | ||
| 4/19 | large language models (ppt) | watch before class, Ch. 9 | ||
| 4/24 | text simplification (ppt) | |||
| 4/26 | ethics discussion | LLMs (full article), profiling, data use | ||
| 5/1 | presentation guide | Quiz 4 | ||
| 5/3 | project presentations |