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OFFICE HOURS:
Tuesday/Thursday 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Date | Topics | Readings |
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30 January | Introduction; Intro to NLP. | Allen Ch. 1 |
1 February | Intro to IR; English grammar. | Allen Ch. 2, 3.1, 3.2, Handout. |
6 February | Constituents; chart parsing. | Allen Ch. (3.3), 3.4. |
8 February | Unification grammars. | Allen Ch. 3.8, 4.7, Handout. |
13 February | Unification grammars. | Allen Ch. 4.8 |
15 February | Meaning representation | Allen Ch. 8.1-8.6 |
20 February | Ambiguity | |
22 February | Ambiguity resolution | Allen Ch. 6.1, 10.1-10.3 |
27 February | Project discussion | |
29 February | Inference and plan recognition | Allen Ch. 15.4-15.7 |
5 March | Plan recognition | |
7 March | Exam on NLP |
Date | Speaker | Topics | Readings |
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12 March | Jim | Introduction to IR. | Frakes Ch. 1, 2 |
14 March | George | Inverted Files | Frakes Ch. 3 |
26 March | Anupama | Lexical Analysis and Stoplists | Frakes Ch. 7 |
28 March | Jim | Relevance Ranking | Frakes Ch. 14 |
2 April | Scott S. | Boolean Operations | Frakes Ch. 12 |
4 April | Yvonne | Relevance Feedback | Frakes Ch. 11 |
9 April | Scott C. | Stemming Algorithms | Frakes Ch. 8 |
11 April | Aaron | Thesaurus Construction | Frakes Ch. 9 |
16 April | Pavel | Signature Files | Frakes Ch. 4 |
18 April | Justin | Clustering Algorithms | Frakes Ch. 16 |
JCM 3/23/96