-- CS 8761 -- Fall 2002 -- Dr. Ted Pedersen --

Readings are required, and should be completed before our lecture on
the indicated date.

TRY THIS/THESE are suggested programming activities and exercises that
give you a way to check your progress, and let you know what types of 
questions I might ask on quizzes or exams. 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 16	(Wed, Dec  18) - Take home final due at noon via webdrop

	(Tue, Dec  17) - Final version of project due at noon via webdrop

	(Mon, Dec  16) - Team presentations (4-6pm)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 15	(Fri, Dec  13) - Final versions of Stage I and II

	(Mon, Dec  09) - Team collected reviews are due
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 14	(Fri, Dec  06) - Final Project algorithm description and beta version

	(Wed, Dec  04) - Read Turney (ACL-2002), Pang et. al. (EMNLP-2002)

	(Mon, Dec  02) - Read Niwa and Nitta (COLING-1994)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 13	(Wed, Nov  27) - Read Yarowsky (COLING-1992)

	(Mon, Nov  25) - Read Lesk (SIGDOC-1986)
	(Mon, Nov  18) - Final Project Stage 2 (warm-up due noon)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 12 (Wed, Nov  21) - new reading

        (Mon, Nov  18) - READ 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6 Manning and Schutze
	(Mon, Nov  18) - Final Project Stage 1 (Beta due noon)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 11 (Wed, Nov 13) - READ 8.1, 8.2 Manning and Schutze

        (Mon, Nov 11) - ASSIGNMENT 4 DUE (noon) - A Continuing Quest for Meaning in Li(f|n)e 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 10 (Wed, Nov 06) - no new reading

        (Mon, Nov 04) - no new reading
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 9 (Fri, Nov  01) - ASSIGNMENT 3 DUE (noon) - The Meaning of Li(f|n)e

       (Wed, Oct  30) - no new reading

       (Mon, Oct  28) - exam 1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 8 (Wed, Oct  23) - no new reading, exam review

       (Mon, Oct  21) - no new reading, exam review
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 7 (Wed, Oct  16) - READ 7.3 Manning and Schutze

			TRY THESE: 7.1, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 
				   7.11, 7,12, 7.14 

       (Mon, Oct  14) - READ 7.1, 7.2 Manning and Schutze
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Week 6 (Fri, Oct  11) - ASSIGNMENT 2 DUE - noon (the great collocation hunt)

       (Wed, Oct  09) - READ: 6.3-6.5 Manning and Schutze
			        (pages 217-225)

			TRY THIS: 6.2 (with Laplace's Law, 
					    Lidstone's Law, &
					    Witten-Bell Smoothing)

       (Mon, Oct  07) - READ: 6.2.2 - 6.2.4 Manning and Schutze
				(pages 202-211)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 5 (Wed, Oct  02) - READ: Chapter 6.1, 6.2.1 Manning and Schutze
				(pages 191-202) 

       (Mon, Sept 30) - READ: Chapters 5.4, 5.5, Manning and Schutze
			ASSIGNMENT 1 DUE - noon (Shannon game)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 4 (Mon, Sept 23) - READ: Chapters 3.2, 3.3, 4, Manning and Schutze

       (Wed, Sept 26) - READ: Chapters 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 Manning and Schutze

			TRY THIS: 5.7 (with NSP), 5.10 (with NSP), 5.12
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Week 3 (Mon, Sept 16) - READ: Chapter 2.2, Manning and Schutze
       
			TRY THIS: perl program to count the number of tokens and types
				  in a text, output the token/type ratio. 

			TRY THESE: 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 (page 78-79)

       (Wed, Sept 18) - READ: Chapter 3.1, Manning and Schutze 

			TRY THESE: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.10, 3.12, 3.13
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Week 2 (Mon, Sept 09) - READ: Chapter 1, Manning and Schutze

			TRY THIS: kwic program in perl
				  sentence boundary detection for added challenge

       (Wed, Sept 11) - READ: Chapter 2.1, Manning and Schtuze

			TRY THESE: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 (page 59)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Week 1 (Wed, Sept 04) - first day of class, no readings

-------------------------------------------------------------------------