# Lecture Notes

Lecture notes.
LEC # | TOPICS
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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 (PDF)
Week 2: Word Modeling: Automata and Linguistics
2 | Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology I, 2-level morphology, Kimmo (PDF - 1.6 MB)
3 | Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology II (PDF)
Week 3: Word Modeling: Statistical Approaches and Part of Speech Tagging
| No lecture
4 | HMM Tagging, Statistical Transformation Rule-Based Tagging, Precision, Recall, Accuracy (PDF - 3.5 MB)
Week 4: Linguistics and Grammars; Parsing Algorithms I
5 | Part of Speech Tagging: The Brill Tagger (PDF - 1.8 MB)
6 | Introduction to Parsing, Linguistics: Syntax & Parsing (PDF - 1.9 MB)
Week 5: Parsing Algorithms II
7 | Shift-Reduce Parsers in Detail, Earley's Algorithm and Chart Parsing (PDF - 2.8 MB)
8 | Context-Free Parsing and Beyond: Efficiency Issues, Feature-Based Parsing, NL System Design (PDF - 2.5 MB)
Week 6: Parsing Algorithms and the Lexicon
9 | Shift-Reduce Parsers in Detail, Earley's Algorithm and Chart Parsing (PDF)
10 | Parsing with an Integrated Lexicon - The Question of Syntactic Features (PDF)
Week 7: Semantic Interpretation
11 | Semantic Interpretation I: Compositionality (PDF)
12 | Semantic Interpretation II: Compositionality and Quantifiers (PDF - 2.8 MB)
Week 8: Feature Parsing; Tree Banks and Probabilistic Parsing
13 | Semantics III: Lexical Semantics (PDF)
14 | Semantics IV: Lexical Semantics (PDF)
Week 9: Semantics II
15 | Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems
16 | Semantics V: Constraint-Based Systems (PDF - 1.6 MB)
Week 10: Machine Translation I and II
17 | Machine Translation I (PDF - 1.4 MB)
18 | Machine Translation II
Week 11: Machine Translation III
19 | Machine Translation III (PDF - 1.5 MB)
Week 12: Machine Translation IV
| Project Discussion Day
20 | Machine Translation IV (PDF)
Week 13: Language Learning
21 | Language Learning I (PDF)
22 | Language Learning II (PDF)
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