WEEK(s) | TOPICS
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READINGS |
1 1/9 1/12 |
Introduction Getting started in text analysis |
NLTK Preface and Ch 1 NLTK Ch 2, Appendix 14 |
2 |
English morphology and the
lexicon Stemming |
NLTK, Sec 3.1-3.4 JM Sec 3.0, 3.1, 3.2(pp. 65-70) 3.4, 3.5, App B Supplementary readings |
3-4 |
Word frequency-based statistics Ngrams Part of speech tagging |
NLTK Sec 3.5 JM Sec 6.0-6.3 NLTK Ch 4, JM Ch 8 |
5-6 |
Formal grammars and parsing I |
NLTK Ch 7-8, JM Ch 10 |
7 - 8 |
Lexical semantics and
information retrieval NLP community resources and activities MIDTERM EXAM: Feb 27 Discussion of term project |
JM Ch 16, 17 |
SPRING BREAK |
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9 - 10 |
Language and meaning |
NLTK Ch 11, JM Ch 14, 15, 19 |
11 - 13 |
Topics and readings to be
determined by student interest Note: no class on March 30 (will follow Monday schedule) |
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14 4/17 |
Last class: Student Project Presentations |
Approximately one third of the student's grade will be determined by individual homework, one third by two exams (a midterm exam and a final exam, weighted equally) and one third by a term project. In order to get a passing grade in the course, you must get a passing grade on all three components. Class participation will also be taken into account in determining the course grade. Late assignments may be discounted, and very late assignments may be discarded.
Academic (Dis)Honesty: The individual assignments must be each
student's
own
work. Any group projects assigned must be the work of the
students in
the group. Plagiarism or copying will result in official
University
disciplinary review.
prevent others from reading them, and not leaving problem solutions in
locations where other students may see them).
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