INF2820 - Spring 2009

Teaching plan

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
15.01.2009Stephan Oepen (oe)  Seminarrom 3A, Informatikkbygningen  Motivation & Course Overview  Slide Copies

Jurafsky & Martin (2008), Chapter 1

Computational Linguistics (Background)

Language Technology (Background) 

20.01.2009Johan Benum Evensberget (johanbev) & Stephan Oepen (oe)  207  Common Lisp Essentials  Slide Copies

First Assignment

The Ultimate Editor (Background)

ACL Cheat Sheet (Background)

Seibel (2005) (Background)

Steele (1990) (Reference) 

22.01.2009oe  3A  Finite State Machines  Slide Copies

Jurafsky & Martin (2008), Chapter 2 

27.01.2009johanbev & oe  207  Regular Expressions  Slide Copies

Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions for Lisp (Background) 

29.01.2009oe  3A  Finite State Machines    
03.02.2009johanbev & oe  207  Tokenization   
04.02.2009      First Assignmnent Due 
05.02.2009oe  3A  Fundamentals of Morphology  Slide Copies

Jurafsky & Martin (2008), Chapter 3 (skip Sections 3.4.1, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9.1, and onwards) 

10.02.2009johanbev & oe  207  Model Solution & More Lisp  Slide Copies

First Model Solution

Second Assignment 

12.02.2009oe  3A  Context-Free Grammar  Slide Copies

Sag, Wasow, & Bender (2003), Chapters 1 and 2 (skip Sections 2.8 and 2.9)

Jurafsky & Martin (2008), Chapter 12 (optional; skip Section 12.4.3, 12.5, 12.7, and onwards) 

17.02.2009johanbev & oe  207  Abstract Data Types   
19.02.2009oe  3A  Context-Free Parsing  Slide Copies

Jurafsky & Martin (2008), Chapter 13 (up to and including Section 13.4.1) 

23.02.2009      Second Assignmnent Due 
24.02.2009johanbev & oe  207  Model Solution & CKY Parsing  Second Model Solution

Third Assignment

LKB Documentation (Background) 

26.02.2009oe  3A  Chart Parsing  Slide Copies

Jurafsky & Martin (2008), Chapter 13 (Sections 13.4.1, 13.4.2, and 13.4.3) 

03.03.2009johanbev & oe  207  Chart Parsing   
05.03.2009oe  3A  Towards Unification-Based Grammar  Slide Copies

Sag, Wasow, & Bender (2003), Chapter 3 

08.03.2009      Third Assignmnent Due 
10.03.2009johanbev & oe  207  Model Solution & Grammar Engineering  Third Model Solution

Fourth Assignment  

12.03.2009oe  3A  The Logic of Typed Feature Structures  Slide Copies

Sag, Wasow, & Bender (2003), Chapter 4 (up to and including Section 4.6.2) 

17.03.2009johanbev & oe  207  Grammar Engineering   
19.03.2009oe  3A  Complementation and Modification  Slide Copies 
24.03.2009johanbev & oe  207  Grammar Engineering   
26.03.2009oe  3A  Modification & Lexical Rules  Slide Copies

Sag, Wasow, & Bender (2003), Chapter 8 (skip Sections 8.3 and 8.9 onwards) 

29.03.2009      Fourth Assignmnent Due 
31.03.2009johanbev  207  Model Solution  Fourth Model Solution

Fifth Assignment 

02.04.2009    No Lecture  (EACL in Athens) 
07.04.2009    No Laboratory  (Easter Holiday) 
09.04.2009    No Lecture  (Easter Holiday) 
14.04.2009johanbev  207  Grammar Engineering   
16.04.2009    No Lecture  (Illness) 
19.04.2009      Fifth Assignmnent Due 
21.04.2009johanbev & oe  207  Model Solution & Esperanto  Fifth Model Solution

Esperanto Data Sheet

Sixth Assignment 

23.04.2009oe  3A  Basics of Probability Theory  Slide Copies

Jurafsky & Martin (2008), Chapter 14 (skip Sections 14.1.2, 14.4, and onwards)

Brief Introduction to Probability Theory (Background) 

28.04.2009johanbev & oe  207     
30.04.2009oe  3A  PCFGs and Statistical Parsing  Slide Copies 
05.05.2009johanbev & oe  207     
10.05.2009      Sixth Assignmnent Due 
07.05.2009oe  3A  Language and Complexity; Course Summary  Slide Copies

Jurafsky & Martin (2008), Chapter 16 (skip Section 16.4) 

07.05.2009oe  207  Esperanto Model Solution  Sixth Model Solution  
14.05.2009oe  3A  Summary; Exam Preparation  Sample Exam 
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