# Readings

The page numbers below refer to readings in the course textbook: Jurafsky, and Martin. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN: 0130950696.

Readings.
LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS
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Week 1: Introduction: The NLP Enterprise, from Words to Meaning |
1 | Introduction, Organization, Laboratories, Course Overview: Introduction to NLP, Main Issues, fsa's | pp. 1-57; Notes 1 (PDF)
Week 2: Word Modeling: Automata and Linguistics | pp. 58-90
2 | Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology I, 2-Level Morphology, Kimmo | Notes 2 (PDF)
3 | Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology II | pp. 287-321
Week 3: Word Modeling: Statistical Approaches and Part of Speech Tagging |
| No lecture | pp. 235-284
4 | HMM Tagging, Statistical Transformation Rule-Based Tagging, Precision, Recall, Accuracy |
Week 4: Linguistics and Grammars; Parsing Algorithms I | Notes 3 (PDF)
5 | Part of Speech Tagging: The Brill Tagger | pp. 357-394
6 | Introduction to Parsing, Linguistics: Syntax & Parsing |
Week 5: Parsing Algorithms II | Notes 4 (PDF)
7 | Shift-Reduce Parsers in Detail, Earley's Algorithm and Chart Parsing |
8 | Context-Free Parsing and Beyond: Efficiency Issues, Feature-Based Parsing, NL System Design | pp. 477-498
Week 6: Parsing Algorithms and the Lexicon |
9 | Shift-Reduce Parsers in Detail, Earley's Algorithm and Chart Parsing |
10 | Parsing with an Integrated Lexicon - The Question of Syntactic Features |
Week 7: Semantic Interpretation | pp. 395-446; pp. 447-476
11 | Semantic Interpretation I: Compositionality |
12 | Semantic Interpretation II: Compositionality and Quantifiers |
Week 8: Feature Parsing; Tree Banks and Probabilistic Parsing |
13 | Semantics III: Lexical Semantics |
14 | Semantics IV: Lexical Semantics | pp. 501-544
Week 9: Semantics II |
15 | Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems | pp. 545-588
16 | Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems |
Week 10: Machine Translation I and II | pp. 589-630
17 | Machine Translation I |
18 | Machine Translation II |
Week 11: Machine Translation III |
19 | Machine Translation III | pp. 631-666
Week 12: Machine Translation IV |
| Project Discussion Day |
20 | Machine Translation IV | pp. 799-830
Week 13: Language Learning |
21 | Language Learning I |
22 | Language Learning II |
Week 14: Evolutionary Models of Language Learning and Origins |
23 | Computational Models of Language Change, I |
24 | Computational Models of Language Change and The Origins of Language |