Schedule subject to change.

Assignments are due at the end of their due date (midnight).

Readings can be done either before or after class; they are chosen to support the material covered in class.

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Spring break

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Week 14

Date	Topic	Materials	Reading	Assignments
April 17	Distributional models	Slides on distributional models. Python code: creating a vector space representation	J&M ch. 20, pp. 658-667	extra credit due
April 19	Learning lexical information from text		J&M ch. 20, pp 667-670

Week 15

Date	Topic	Materials	Reading	Assignments
April 24	Applications: Information extraction	slides: information extraction (also listed at the bottom of the page)	J&M ch. 22 pp. 725-743	HW 6 due
April 26	Applications: Sentiment analysis	NLP handbook article on sentiment analysis (B. Liu)

Week 16

Date	Topic	Materials	Reading	Assignments
May 1	Applications: Machine translation	slides (mt.pdf, also listed below)	J&M ch. 25, p. 859-876
May 3	Review	Review sheet (also linked below, final_review.pdf)

Final exam