This is the lectures page for the Winter 2016 course webpage for TTIC 31190: Natural Language Processing.


Jan. 5, 2016: Lecture 1: Introduction
readings: SLP2 Chapter 1

Jan. 7, 2016: Lecture 2: Text Classification
readings: SLP3 Chapter 7

Jan. 12, 2016: Lecture 3: Finish Classification, Start Words
readings: SLP2 Chapter 3: Sections 3.1, 3.9, 3.10, 3.12

Jan. 14, 2016: Lecture 4: Lexical Semantics
readings: SLP3 Chapter 18: Sections 18.1–18.5

Jan. 19, 2016: Lecture 5: Word Vectors
readings: SLP3 Chapter 19, Turney and Pantel (2010)

Jan. 21, 2016: Lecture 6: Language Modeling
readings: SLP3 Chapter 4

Jan. 26, 2016: Lecture 7: Sequence Models
readings: SLP3 Chapter 9: Sections 9.1–9.3, Chapter 8: Sections 8.1–8.2

Jan. 28, 2016: Lecture 8: Inference in Structured Prediction (flipped class—bring notebook and/or laptop!)
readings: SLP3 Chapter 8: Sections 8.3–8.6
code: dpcode.tar.gz

Feb. 2, 2016: Lecture 9: Finish Sequence Models, Start Neural Methods
readings: SLP3 Chapter 8: Section 8.4, Chapter 9: Section 9.4

Feb. 4, 2016: Lecture 10: Neural Network for NLP (class will be held in Room 530 instead of 526.)
readings: Yoav Goldberg's primer: Sections 1–4, 6; Kyunghyun Cho's notes: Sections 1–3

Feb. 9, 2016: Lecture 11: Recurrent and Convolutional Neural Networks in NLP
readings: Yoav Goldberg's primer: Sections 9–11; Kyunghyun Cho's notes: Section 4–7; Kim (2014)
code: lstmdemo.tar.gz

Feb. 11, 2016: Lecture 12: Syntax and Parsing
readings: SLP2 Chapter 12: Sections 12.1–12.4, Chapter 14: Sections 14.1–14.7

Feb. 16, 2016: Lecture 13: Finish Syntax/Parsing, Review for Midterm
(project proposal due)
readings: SLP2 Chapter 12: Section 12.7; Dependency Grammar and Dependency Parsing by Joakim Nivre

Feb. 18, 2016: Midterm (class will be held in Room 530 instead of 526.)

Feb. 23, 2016: Lecture 14: Computational Semantics
readings: SLP2 20.9

Feb. 25, 2016: Lecture 15: Introduction to Machine Translation
readings: SLP2 Chapter 25

Mar. 1, 2016: Lecture 16: Machine Translation and Other NLP Applications
readings:

Mar. 3, 2016: Class Presentations

Mar. 8, 2016: Class Presentations




Note to those interested in reusing these course materials: Please do so! No attribution needed. PowerPoint files are also posted; just change the extension from pdf to pptx. Note that some slides were taken or adapted from Jurafsky and Martin's SLP3 slides.