CS 8761  - Natural Language Processing - Fall 2002
 Class Information: 
 Syllabus  
 Required Reading and Suggested Activities  
 Code  
The class meets on Monday and Wednesday from 3pm until 4:40 pm in Heller 
Hall 302. The first class meeting is Wednesday, September 4. 
 Final Project : MRD + WEB => CORPUS 
 
 Project Teams . Curious about 
 team names?  
 
The overall objective of this project is to create a data-driven solution 
to the problem of sentiment classification (is a review positive or 
negative), where the data comes from the WWW and machine readable 
dictionaries. 
 
Dec 17, 2002 : Here are the final projects as submitted by the teams. They  
consist of an interface to LDOCE, an interface to the Macquarie Dictionary 
(BigMac), and  an interface to the WWW. Information from all of these 
sources is combined to carry out sentiment classification. 
-  Alianza Lima  system,    
their  algorithm   
description, and  analysis 
 of results.
-  Melgar FBC  system, 
their  algorithm   
description, and  analysis 
 of results.
-  Sport Boys  system,   
their  algorithm   
description, and  analysis 
 of results.
-  Sporting Cristal  system, 
  their  algorithm   
description, and  analysis 
 of results.
-  Union Minas  system, 
  their  algorithm   
description, and  analysis 
 of results.
Sentiment Classification! . Stage 3, various due dates.
 
 review data  collected by class.  
 
 More words, words, words . Stage 1 
improvements, due Wed Nov 27, noon. 
  
 The web is your oyster . Stage 2, warm-up 
version due Mon Nov 25, noon  
 
 Words, words, words . Stage 1, beta version  
due Mon Nov 18, noon. My  comments.   
 
 Final Exam Take Home Question  
 
 Final Exam,  due Weds, Dec 18, noon 
 
 Programming Assignments 
 
 The Shannon Game,  assignment 1, due Mon, Sept 30 noon 
Some 
 comments  on assignment protocols 
and some  comments  on the 
Shannon Game itself. 
 
 The Great Collocation Hunt,  assignment 2, 
due Fri, Oct 11 noon 
 Comments  on my test cases.  A 
few  comments  on the assignment. 
Read the student's  reports  on their experiments. 
 
 How to Find Meanings in Li(f|n)e  assignment 3, due Wed, Nov 1, noon 
 
Read the student's  reports  on their experiments. 
 
 
 A Continuing Quest for Meanings in Li(f|n)e   
assignment 4, due Mon, Nov 11, noon 
 
Read the student's  reports  on their 
experiments. 
 
 Web Drop to Submit Assignments 
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 Perl Resources: 
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 Other Resources: 
By:
Ted Pedersen
- tpederse@umn.edu