CS 6320

Natural Language Processing

Fall 2009

Tentative Outline

08/21/09 Introduction to NLP; NLP Resources; Review of English Grammar

08/28/09 Regular Expressions and Automata, Words and Transducers

09/04/09 N-grams

09/11/09 Part-of-Speech Tagging; Hidden Markov and Maximum Entropy Models

09/18/09 Speech Recognition

09/25/09 Formal Grammars and Syntactic Parsing

10/02/09 Statistical Parsing; Features and Unification

10/09/09 Logic Forms

10/16/09 Midterm Exam

10/23/09 Semantics

10/30/09 Semantics

11/06/09 Discourse

11/13/09 Information Extraction

11/20/09 Question Answering

11/27/09 No Class--Thanksgiving Break

12/04/09 Current NLP Research and Course wrap-up

12/11/09 Final Exam--4pm