instructor: Dave Kauchak
e-mail: [first_initial][last_name]@cs.pomona.edu
office hours: Edmunds 224
Mon. 3-3:50pm
Tue. 11am-12
Thu. 11am-12:30
Fri. 10-11am
and by appointment
time: M/W 11am-12:15pm
location: Edmunds 114
web page: http://www.cs.pomona.edu/~dkauchak/classes/cs159/
textbook:
| Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/23 | introduction (ppt), regular expressions (ppt) | Ch. 1 | Assignment 0 | Due: Friday 2/25 @ 5pm |
| 1/28 | corpus analysis (ppt) | Ch. 2-2.4 | Assignment 1 | Due: Monday 2/4 @ 11am |
| 1/30 | probability (ppt) | |||
| 2/4 | language modeling (ppt) | Ch. 3-3.4 | Assignment 2a - 2b | A Due: Friday 2/8 @ 5pm B Due: Friday 2/15 @ 5pm |
| 2/6 | LM smoothing (ppt) discount example | Ch. 3.4-3.6 | ||
| 2/11 | LM lab | |||
| 2/13 | syntax basics (ppt) | Ch. 8-8.3, 10-10.2 | Assignment 3 | Due: Monday 2/25 @ 11am |
| 2/18 | grammars (ppt) | Ch. 11-11.2 | Quiz 1 | |
| 2/20 | parsing (ppt) | Ch. 12-12.4 | ||
| 2/25 | improved parsing (ppt) | Ch. 12.5-12.11 | Assignment 4a - 4b | A Due: Wednesday 2/27 @ 11am B Due: Friday 3/8 @ 5pm |
| 2/27 | parsing lab | |||
| 3/4 | text similarity (ppt) | Ch. 6-6.7 | ||
| 3/6 | word similarity (ppt) | Ch. C-C.2 | ||
| 3/11 | neural networks (ppt | Ch. 7-7.3 | Assignment 5 | A Due: Friday 3/15 @ 5pm B Due: Monday 4/1 @ 11am |
| 3/13 | backpropogation (ppt) | Ch. 7.4 | Quiz 2 | |
| 3/18 | Break | |||
| 3/20 | Break | |||
| 3/25 | word representations (ppt) | Ch. 6.8 | ||
| 3/27 | machine translation (ppt) | |||
| 4/1 | MT - word alignment (ppt) | IBM 1-2 | Assignment 6 | A Due: Monday 4/8 @ 11am B Due: Friday 4/12 @ 5pm |
| 4/3 | MT - misc (ppt) | |||
| 4/8 | machine learning (ppt) | Daume 1-1.2 | ||
| 4/10 | ML - Naive Bayes (ppt) | Manning 13.1-13.4 | Assignment 7 | Due: Friday 4/19 @ 5pm |
| 4/15 | ML - priors (ppt) | Final project | Quiz 3 | |
| 4/17 | ML - models (ppt) | |||
| 4/22 | ML lab | |||
| 4/24 | document modeling (ppt) | |||
| 4/29 | text simplification (ppt) | |||
| 5/1 | ethics | paper 1, paper 2 | ||
| 5/6 | presentation guide (ppt) | Quiz 4 | ||
| 5/8 | project presentations |