Computational Linguistics II

Logistics

Location KEB 1200
Time Wed. 13:30-16:00
Webpage http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/teaching/CMSC_773_2012/
Mailing List http://www.piazza.com/umd/spring2012/cmsc773
Syllabus https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1PTAe-A6vGBWbHULsE-fdwCerxcmSXf-RGaz6nE8PDlY
Online Videos http://capture.umd.edu/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=89243f6c-7444-4f5a-83e7-7f03304a02f1

People

Professor

Jordan Boyd-Graber
Hornbake 2118C / AVW 3219
Office Hours (AVW 3219): Monday 11:00 - 12:00 and by appointment

Schedule

Date Subject Assignment Due Lecture
1/25 Lexical SMT [Scribe]
Readings: Optional
2/1 Phrase-based SMT [Scribe] [slides]
Readings: Optional
2/8 Discriminative Methods [Scribe]
Readings: Optional
2/15 Evaluation and the care and feeding of supervised methods HW 1 [Scribe]
Readings: Optional:
2/22 Dependency Parsing: Transition-based models [Scribe]
Readings:
2/29 Dependency Parsing II: Arc-factored models [Scribe]
Optional (but encouraged):
3/7 Grammar Induction [Scribe]
Readings: Optional: (Warning: these are pretty hairy math-wise, but good for advanced concepts)
3/14 Information Theory and Hypothesis Testing HW 2 [Scribe]
Readings:
  • SNLP Chapter 5
3/21

No class: Spring break!

3/28 Topic Modeling Proposal [Slides]
Readings: Optional:
4/4 Midterm [Sample] [PDF]

4/11 Semisupervised Learning and WSD [Slides]
Readings: Optional:
4/18 Linguistic Universals HW 3
Readings:
4/25 Sentiment Analysis Project Deliverable 1 [Scribe]
Readings:
5/2 Reading, Writing, and Reviewing Papers
Reading: Writing: Reviewing:
5/9 Project Presentations Presentations
5/18 All Course Materials Due Final