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Weekly readings are specified below. A “+” indicates additional readings will be made available via a link from this page. Lecture slides in PDF are obtained by clicking on the link to the topic.

Please note that this schedule is tentative and may change as the semester progresses. Please visit this page often!

DateTopicReadingAssignment
1/28 Introduction J&M Ch. 1
2/2 Morphology, tokenization, regular expressions NLTK Ch. 1, J&M Ch. 2, 3.1
2/4 Introduction to NLTK and Python NLTK Ch. 3, 4
2/9 Probability, Collocations, Ngrams J&M Ch. 4 A1
2/16 Part of Speech Tagging, HMMs J&M Ch. 5, 6, NLTK Ch. 5
2/23 Parsing J&M Ch. 13, 14, 15 A2
3/1 Machine Learning Weka tutorial NLTK Ch. 6 A3
3/29 Lexical Semantics, word sense disambiguation J&M Ch. 19, 20 A4
4/5 Sentiment Analysis R1 , R2 (pp. 1-23)
4/12Discourse Phenomena J&M Ch. 21
4/19Applications: Information extraction, named entity recognition J&M Ch. 22 A4a
4/21Applications: Machine Translation J&M Ch. 25
4/28TBA
5/3Project presentations