Notes:
Week 1August 30: Course introduction.
September 1: Text encoding
Week 2September 4: Labor day. September 8: We finish up text encoding.
Week 3September 11: Forensic linguistics
September 13: Guest lecture: Jessy Li: Forensic linguistics.
September 15: Guest lecture: John Beavers: Grammars. Week 4September 18: Document classification: What is machine learning? Then we start on sentiment analysis .
September 20: Document classification: More on sentiment analysis. Then: The Naive Bayes classifier.
September 22: Document classification: The Naive Bayes classifier.
Week 5September 25: Document classification: Evaluating a supervised learning system September 27: Web search: Structured and unstructured data, and how to search through those
September 29: Web search: Page Rank. HTML and XML
Week 6October 2: Web search: Regular expressions
October 4: Web search: Regular expressions, continued. Then we start on Spelling correction.
October 6: Midterm exam review Week 7October 9: Midterm exam October 11: Spelling correction
October 13: Spelling correction
Week 8October 16: We finish up Spelling correction, then start on cryptography.
October 18: Cryptography Homework 4 due October 20: Cryptography Week 9October 23: Finishing up Cryptography, then Machine translation
October 25: Machine translation: Linguistic phenomena
October 27: Machine translation: statistical machine translation
Week 10October 30: Machine translation: statistical machine translation continued, then a glimpse at neural machine translation
November 1: Machine translation: neural machine translation
Homework 5 due November 3: Neural machine translation continued
Week 11November 6: Grammars
November 8: Grammars
November 10: Dialogue systems
Week 12November 13: Dialogue systems
November 15: Dialogue systems
Homework 6 due November 17: Dialogue systems
Week 13November 20: Dialogue systems
November 22: Thanksgiving break November 24 Thanksgiving break Week 14November 27: Impact of language and technology:
November 29: Impact of language and technology
Homework 7 due December 1: Impact of language and technology
Week 15December 4: Impact of language and technology
December 6: Impact of language and technology
December 8: Final exam review
Week 16December 11: Finishing up: final exam review Essay due: Social context of language and computers |
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