Teaching plan

22.08.2011
Monday

Introduction
Practical information
"Looking at text"

J.T.Lønning

L. Øvrelid

• Foundations of Statistical NLP, Ch.1, 4.1-4.2
• NLTK 1.1-1.3, 1.5, 2.1-2.2
• Nivre 2005
• Nivre 2006
• Nivre's web-course sec 1
• Presentation

29.08.2011
Monday

• FSNLP, Ch. 2.1, (parts of 2.2), 5.1-5.2
• Nivre's web-course sec 2&3

31.08.2011
Wednesday
Assembler, room 3417

• NLTK 1.1-1.3, 1.5, 2.1-2.2 (you have to work through this on the computer).
• We will work through parts of this. Please take a look at the text and the program before the class.
• We also covered NLTK sec. 3.1 in class.

05.09.2011
Monday

• FSNLP, Ch. 5
• Nivre's web-course sec 4

07.09.2011
Wednesday
Postscript, 2458 OJD

Statistics for NLP

Exercises

Exercises from Nivre's web course

• Sec. 2, exercise 1-3, 5-6
• Sec. 3, exercise 1-6

If you're not familiar with statistics, do as much as you can before class

12.09.2011
Monday

• FSNLP, Ch. 5
• Presentation

14.09.2011

Assembler, room 3417

• Exercises
• Work on obligatory assignments 1

19.09.2011
Monday

• FSNLP, Ch. 5
• FSNLP, Sec. 2.2

21.09.2011
Wednesday Assembler,
room 3417

• Work on obligatory assignment 1:
  exercise 3
• Exercises

26.09.2011
Monday

• FSNLP, Ch. 7.1-2
• FSNLP, Ch. 8.1
• NLTK 6.1-5
• Manning, Raghavan, Schütze, IIR, Ch. 13

28.09.2011
Wednesday
Assembler,
room 3417

• Work on obligatory assignment 2
• Exercises

03.10.2011
Monday

• FSNLP Ch. 8.5
• Recommended additional reading, Jurafsky&Martin, sec. 20.7

05.10.2011
Wednesday
Assembler,
room 3417

• Exercises

10.10.2011
Monday

• Nivre: "Dependency Grammar and Dependency Parsing", sec 1, 2, 4
• Zwicky: "Heads", sec 1-2
• Slides

12.10.2011
Wednesday

Postscript, 2458 OJD

• Nivre: "Two Strategies for Text Parsing"
• Nivre et. al.: "MaltParser: A language-independent..." sec 1-4.1
• Slides

17.10.2011
Monday

19.10.2011
Wednesday

Assembler,
room 3417

• Slides

24.10.2011
Monday

26.10.2011
Wednesday

31.10.2011
Monday

Semantic roles

• Dowty: "Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection", sec 1-9
• Fillmore: "The case for case reopened"
• Slides

0.2.11.2011
Wednesday

07.11.2011
Monday

Semantic role labeling

• Gildea & Jurafsky: "Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles"
• Marquez et. al.: "Semantic Role Labeling: An Introduction to the Special Issue"
• Johansson & Nugues: "Dependency-based Syntactic–Semantic Analysis with PropBank and NomBank"
• Slides

09.11.2011
Wednesday

14.11.2011
Monday

Vector space models, IR, classification and clustering

• FSNLP, Ch. 15.2, 16.4, 14.2: intro+14.2.1
• Manning et. al., IIR, Ch. 14-14.3
• Recommended additional reading, Jurafsky&Martin, sec. 6.6 (except 6.6.4), 23.1
• Presentation

16.11.2011
Wednesday

21.11.2011
Monday

• FSNLP, Ch. 16.2
• Jursfsky&Martin, sec. 6.6-6.8 (except 6.6.4)
• Ratnaparkhi 1996
• NLTK, sec. 6.6
• Presentation

23.11.2011
Wednesday
Postscript, 2458 OJD

28.11.2011
Monday

Maxent tagging
Glimpses beyond, Summing up

• Presentation

30.11.2011
Wednesday
Postscript, 2458 OJD

7.12.2011
Wednesday
Postscript, 2458 OJD

• Exercices