CS 5761 - Introduction to Natural Language Processing - Spring 2002
All reading should be completed during the week it is assigned. Note that
SLP refers to Speech and Language Processing by Jurafsky and Martin. Perl
materials may be of your own choosing, although I make recommendations
below.
- Week 1 (ends Jan 25) :
- SLP: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
- Perl: Review introductory material as found
here or in Learning Perl or Programming Perl. Make sure you are able
to write simple Perl programs that use command line arguments and file
i/o.
- Week 2 (ends Feb 01) :
- SLP: no new reading, review Chapter 2
- Perl: Learn how to use regular expression matching and substitution.
Learning Perl and Programming in Perl are very good introductions. When
you become more expert, Mastering Regular Expressions in Perl is a good
source. Experiment with hashes too.
- Week 3 (ends Feb 08) :
- SLP: Chapter 3, Chapter 5.1 - 5.6
- Week 4 (ends Feb 15) :
- SLP: no new reading, review all assigned reading and all lecture
material in preparation for exam Thu, Feb 21.
- Week 5 (ends Feb 22) :
- Week 6 (ends Mar 01) :
- no new reading, review n-gram material from Chapter 6 and earlier
lectures (Zipf's Law in particular)
- Week 7 (ends Mar 08) :
- Week 8 (ends Mar 15) :
- no new reading, make sure you understand how to generate random text
from an n-gram model and work out witten-bell smoothing estimates by hand
- SPRING BREAK (ends Mar 22) :
- Week 9 (ends Mar 29) :
- Week 10 (ends Apr 05) :
- Week 10 (ends Apr 12) :
- George Miller, "Ambiguous Words"
- George Miller, WordNet overview from CACM
- Gale, Church, and Yarowsky, "A Method for Disambiguating Word Senses
in a Large Corpus"
- Week 11 (ends Apr 19) :
- Week 12 (ends Apr 26) :
- Week 13 (ends May 3) :
- SLP: Chapter 12, Chapter 13.1-13.3
- Week 14 (ends May 10) :
- no new reading, review for final
- Week 15 (ends May 17) :
- FINAL EXAM, WEDNESDAY MAY 15
- Comprehensive
By:
Ted Pedersen
- tpederse@d.umn.edu