# Calendar

Calendar.
LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES
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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 |
Week 2: Word Modeling: Automata and Linguistics
2 | Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology I, 2-Level Morphology, Kimmo | Lab 1a Out (Introduction: Processing Words)
3 | Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology II | Lab 1b Out (Processing Spanish Words)
Week 3: Word Modeling: Statistical Approaches and Part of Speech Tagging
| No lecture |
4 | HMM Tagging, Statistical Transformation Rule-Based Tagging, Precision, Recall, Accuracy |
Week 4: Linguistics and Grammars; Parsing Algorthms I
5 | Part of Speech Tagging: The Brill Tagger | Lab 1 Due
6 | Introduction to Parsing, Linguistics: Syntax & Parsing |
Week 5: Parsing Algorithms II
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 |
Week 6: Parsing Algorithms and The Lexicon
9 | Shift-Reduce Parsers in Detail, Earley's Algorithm and Chart Parsing | Lab 2 Out
10 | Parsing With an Integrated Lexicon - The Question of Syntactic Features |
Week 7: Semantic Interpretation
11 | Semantic Interpretation I: Compositionality |
12 | Semantic Interpretation II: Compositionality and Quantifiers | Lab 2 Due Lab 3 Out
Week 8: Feature Parsing; Tree Banks and Probabilistic Parsing
13 | Semantics III: Lexical Semantics |
14 | Semantics IV: Lexical Semantics |
Week 9: Semantics II
15 | Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems |
16 | Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems | Lab 3 Due
Week 10: Machine Translation I and II
17 | Machine Translation I |
18 | Machine Translation II |
Week 11: Machine Translation III
19 | Machine Translation III |
Week 12: Machine Translation IV
| Project Discussion Day |
20 | Machine Translation IV |
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 | Final Project Due