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Week 1 
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are
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you
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getting
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excited?
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What is NLP?

Read Email (1.4-1.7)

Period 3 zoom
Period 5 zoom

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Week 2 
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Probability Review

Read 2.2-2.5

HW (due 25th)

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Lab 1: Hashtag Segmentation
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Ngrams and Language Models

Read 3.0-3.1

HW (due 31st)

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Week 3 
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Smoothing Language Models

Read 3.4-3.5

         

September 2020
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Lab 2: Email Recovery
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Smoothing Continued

HW (due 8th)

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Week 4 
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Labor Day
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[Monday Schedule]
lab continued
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Naive Bayes and Features

Read 4.1-4.3,4.6

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Week 5 
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Logistic Regression

Read 5-5.4,5.6

HW (due 18th)

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Lab 3: Author Identification
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LMs+Classification Recap

good-turing notes

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Week 6 
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Sentiment and Language

Read 21-21.6

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lab continued
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6 Week Exam

EVERYONE IN HP123

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Week 7 
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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 2020
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Words as Vectors
Read 6.1-6.4,6.7

in person HP103

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Week 8 
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Words as Vectors (continued)

in person HP103

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lab continued
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Word2Vec
Read 6.8-6.10

in person HP103

Project Released

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Week 9 
(online 2868 3138 3462 0588 0738 1632 1614)
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Columbus Day
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Lab 5: Word2Vec

sample program

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Intro to Syntax

Read 8-8.2

HW (due 19th)

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Week 10 
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Syntax Continued

Read 12-12.3

HW (due 23rd)
upload here

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Lab 6: PCFG Intro

CFGs to PCFGs

Read 14.1

Project Proposals Due

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Work on Lab
(bring laptops)

HW (due 26th)

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Week 11 
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CKY Algorithm

Read 13-13.4

HW (due 30th)
upload here

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Lab 7: CKY Parser
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CKY Eval & Practice

cky sheet

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November 2020
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Week 12 
(online 3714 5934 6750 0588 2910 3690 5424)
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Review Day

study questions

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lab continued
Milestone Due
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12 Week Exam
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Week 13 
(online 3714 5934 6750 0588 2910 3690 5424)
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Advanced Parsing

Read 14.4-14.6

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Final Project Work

Project Datasets Due
(upload)

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Veterans Day
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Neural NLP
(all online)

Read 7-7.3


Lab 7 CKY Due
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Week 14 
(online all)
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Neural NLP (cont)
(all online)

Read 9-9.4

HW (due 20th)

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Final Project Work
(all online)

Project Progress Report
(upload)

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Neural Large LMs
(all online)
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Week 15 
(online 2868 3138 3462 0738 1632 1614 2328)
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Where does NLP go from here?
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Final Project Work
(all in person)

Project Progress Report
(upload)

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Thanksgiving
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Reading Day
(no class)
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Week 16 
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Project Presentations
         

December 2020
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Project Presentations
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End of Term

Projects Due

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Final Exam @ 0755

In Person

Period 3 in HP107
Period 5 in HP105

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