| Week 1: Introduction: The NLP Enterprise, from Words to Meaning |
| 1 | Introduction, Organization, Laboratories, Course Overview: Introduction to NLP, Main Issues, fsa's
(PDF) |
| Week 2: Word Modeling: Automata and Linguistics |
| 2 | Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology I, 2-level morphology, Kimmo
(PDF - 1.6 MB) |
| 3 | Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology II
(PDF) |
| Week 3: Word Modeling: Statistical Approaches and Part of Speech Tagging |
| No lecture |
| 4 | HMM Tagging, Statistical Transformation
Rule-Based Tagging, Precision, Recall, Accuracy
(PDF - 3.5 MB) |
| Week 4: Linguistics and Grammars; Parsing Algorithms I |
| 5 | Part of Speech Tagging: The Brill Tagger
(PDF - 1.8 MB) |
| 6 | Introduction to Parsing, Linguistics: Syntax & Parsing
(PDF - 1.9 MB) |
| Week 5: Parsing Algorithms II |
| 7 | Shift-Reduce Parsers in Detail, Earley's Algorithm and Chart Parsing
(PDF - 2.8 MB) |
| 8 | Context-Free Parsing and Beyond: Efficiency Issues, Feature-Based Parsing, NL System Design
(PDF - 2.5 MB) |
| Week 6: Parsing Algorithms and the Lexicon |
| 9 | Shift-Reduce Parsers in Detail, Earley's Algorithm and Chart Parsing (PDF) |
| 10 | Parsing with an Integrated Lexicon - The Question of Syntactic Features
(PDF) |
| Week 7: Semantic Interpretation |
| 11 | Semantic Interpretation I: Compositionality
(PDF) |
| 12 | Semantic Interpretation II: Compositionality and Quantifiers
(PDF - 2.8 MB) |
| Week 8: Feature Parsing; Tree Banks and Probabilistic Parsing |
| 13 | Semantics III: Lexical Semantics
(PDF) |
| 14 | Semantics IV: Lexical Semantics
(PDF) |
| Week 9: Semantics II |
| 15 | Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems |
| 16 | Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems
(PDF - 1.6 MB) |
| Week 10: Machine Translation I and II |
| 17 | Machine Translation I
(PDF - 1.4 MB) |
| 18 | Machine Translation II |
| Week 11: Machine Translation III |
| 19 | Machine Translation III
(PDF - 1.5 MB) |
| Week 12: Machine Translation IV |
| Project Discussion Day |
| 20 | Machine Translation IV
(PDF) |
| Week 13: Language Learning |
| 21 | Language Learning I
(PDF) |
| 22 | Language Learning II
(PDF) |
| Week 14: Evolutionary Models of Language Learning and Origins |
| 23 | Computational Models of Language Change, I |
| 24 | Computational Models of Language Change and the Origins of Language |