| CLASS | TOPIC | READING | ASSIGNMENT |
| 9/3 | Introduction | M&S Chapters 1, 4 | |
| 9/10 | Finite State Transducers and various language tasks | J&M Chapters 2, 3 | Assn 1 |
| 9/17 | Probability, Collocations, N-grams | M&S Chapters 2.1, 5, 6 | |
| 9/24 | Part of Speech Tagging | M&S Chapters 9, 10 | Assn2 |
| 10/1 | Shallow Parsing | M&S Chapter 11 | |
| 10/8 | Chart Parsing, Probabilistic Parsing | M&S Chapter 12 | Assn 3 |
| FALL BREAK | |||
| 10/22 | Lexical Semantics, Word Sense Disambiguation | J&M 19, 20, M&S Ch. 7 | |
| 10/29 | Guest lecture: Thad Starner:
Towards Assistive Technologies for the Deaf
Information Extraction, Named Entity Recognition |
M&S Ch. 15 | Assn 4 |
| 11/5 | Classification and Machine Learning (weka slides) | M&S Ch. 14, 16 | |
| 11/12 | Machine Translation | M&S Ch. 13 | |
| 11/19 | Discourse | J&M 21 |
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| 11/26 | Other Applications | TBA | |
| 12/3 | Project presentations |