proposal
Tutorial title : Natural Language Processing I
Desired credits : 2
Tutorial description: (appropriate for the registrar's permanent record)
An introduction to Natural Language Processing, and the combination of Computer Science and Linguistics that is needed in the field.
What exactly do you want to study?
Be as explicit as you can, including a schedule if possible.
One Semester NLP course (as set out on P xxvii of the preface to "SLP", and reprinted below.)
| Chapter |
Title |
| 1 | Introduction |
| 2 | Regular Expressions, Finite State Automata |
| 4 | N-grams |
| 5 | Part of Speech tagging |
| 6 | Hidden Markov and Maximum Entropy Models |
| 12 | Formal Grammars |
| 13 | Parsing |
| 14 | Statistical Parsing |
| 17 | Computational Semantics |
| 19 | Lexical Semantics |
| 20 | Computational Lexical Semantics |
| 21 | Discourse |
| 22 | Information Extraction |
| 23 | Question Answering & Summarization |
| 24 | Machine Translation |
How does this relate to your plan and/or other course work?
I plan to do my Plan in Computational Linguistics and NLP is an important area of CL, especially in Machine Translation, which is the current focus of the project.
What resources have you identified?
(e.g. books, articles, websites, experience, ...)
- Jurafsky, D. and J. Martin. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition. 2nd ed. USA: Prentice Hall, 2009. ISBN: 9780131873216
What will be the gradeable products, and on what schedule?
(e.g. projects, programs, papers, tests, ...)
- Selected exercises from the chapters covered.
- One midterm paper
- One final paper
I'm not comfortable with having both the midterm and final gradeable pieces papers in a technical course like this. At least one should be a coding project. - Jim
How about making the "final" a coding project and short (few page) write-up? Project TBD closer to the end of term. An idea I just had for the midterm paper is a self-evaluation of where I am when I get there. What I've learned, what's been challenging, and where I see myself as far as Plan work. - Elias
For 2 credits, a gradeable midterm isn't needed. Yes, we'll choose around midterm a project for the end. And I would like to see weekly journal entries with reflections, chapter summary, and the problems you choose to work. - Jim
