August 2021
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Week 1 
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What is NLP?

Read 2.2-2.5
and MaxMatch

HW (due 24th)

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Lab 1: Hashtag Segmentation
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Probability Review

Read 1.4-1.7
(handout)

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Week 2 
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Ngrams and Language Models

Read 3.0-3.1

HW (due 31st)

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Lab 2: Email Recovery
       

September 2021
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Smoothing Language Models

Read 3.4-3.5

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Week 3 
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Labor Day
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[Monday Schedule]
lab in lecture room
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Smoothing Continued

HW (due 13th)

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Week 4 
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Naive Bayes and Features

Read 4.1-4.3,4.6

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Lab 3: Author Identification
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Logistic Regression

Read 5-5.4,5.6

HW (due 20th)

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Week 5 
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LMs+Classification Recap

good-turing notes

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lab continued
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Sentiment and Language

Read 21-21.6

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Week 6 
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Sentiment Contd.

Sentiment Paper
(Read pg 1-6)
Quiz on reading tomorrow

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Lab 4: Twitter Sentiment
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October 2021
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6 Week Exam
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Week 7 
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Words as Vectors
Read 6.1-6.4,6.7
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lab continued
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Exam Review
Words as Vectors (continued)
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Week 8 
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Columbus Day
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Lab 5: Word2Vec

sample program

Word2Vec
Read 6.8-6.10

Project Released

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Neural NLP

Read 7-7.3

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Week 9 
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Neural NLP (cont)

Read 9-9.4

HW (due 22nd)

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Lab 6: BERT Clustering
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Transformer Networks
Read: Illustrated Transformer

Project Proposals Due

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Week 10 
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Intro to Syntax

Read 8-8.2

HW (due 26th)

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Final Project Work
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Syntax Continued

Read 12-12.3

HW (print, due Nov 1)

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Week 11 
           

November 2021
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Review Day

study questions

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Lab 7: PCFG Intro

CFGs to PCFGs

Read 14.1

Project Datasets Due
(upload)

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12 Week Exam
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Week 12 
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CKY Algorithm

Read 13-13.4

HW (due 9th)

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Lab 8: CKY Parser
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Veterans Day
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CKY Eval & Practice
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Week 13 
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Advanced Parsing

Read 14.4-14.6

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lab continued
CKY Milestone Due

Project Progress Report
(submit)

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lab time

HW (due 23rd)

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Week 14 
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Information Extraction
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Final Project Work
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Thanksgiving
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Reading Day
(no class)
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Week 15 
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Information Extraction 2
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Final Project Work

Project Progress Report
(submit)

       

December 2021
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Reference Resolution
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Week 16 
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Review Day
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Project Presentations
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Where does NLP go from here?

End of Term

Projects Due

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Final Exam

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HP123

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