CS 8761 - Natural Language Processing - Fall 2004

Class Information:

• Boca Juniors (aka EGAL) download or run the web demo.
  • See the README and INSTALL files.
• Racing Club (aka SEAM) download or run the web demo.
  • See the README and INSTALL files.
• River Plate (aka EssayGrader) download or run the web demo.
  • See the README and INSTALL files.
• San Lorenzo (aka e-valuador) download or run the web demo.
  • See the README and INSTALL files.
• Independiente download or run the web demo.
  • See the README and INSTALL files.

Project:

• Alpha stage, due Mon, Nov 15, by noon.
• Beta stage, due Wed, Dec 08, by noon.
• Final version, due Wed, Dec 22, by noon.

Programming Assignments:

• Assignment 1 Poor Man's LSA (Due Weds Sept 29, noon)
  • Associated Press data for your experiments. You may consider each line to be a context. (gz file)
• Assignment 2 Play the Shannon Game (Due Fri Oct 15, noon)
• Assignment 3 Retrieving Collocations with Mean-Variance (Due Mon Nov 1, noon)
  • New York Times data for your experiments. (.gz file)
  • A stoplist that will work with NSP, if you want to use it. Note that to make a fair comparison you should also have your method eliminate stop words too if you use this!
• Assignment 4 Collect Essay Data (Due Mon Nov 8, noon)
  • An The corpus you collected! This consists of 568 five-paragraph essays with prompts!
  • The River Plate Essay Corpus, which consists of 250 essays (prompts and questions) collected and kindly provided by the River Plate team.

Project Resources: