This is the current view of how the semester will proceed, but the schedule will be adjusted from time to time. Do not rely on the printed copy; the truth is here: http://ling-blogs.bu.edu/lx390f16/schedule/. Homework will generally be assigned on Wednesdays and due on the following Wednesday. The readings in the Readings column are those that pertain to the lectures that week (so read them for the class they are listed by). The circled number represents the chapter, the other numbers represent sections. [Gn] indicates an additional section for students in GRS LX 690.
| Date | Topic | Homework | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEPTEMBER | ||||
| W 7 | Hello world | |||
| F 9 | Counting | ① 5, 1 | ||
| M 12 | Variables | ① 2 | ||
| W 14 | Simple stats | ① 3 | ||
| F 16 | Conditionals | ① 4 | ||
| M 19 | Corpora | ② 1 | ||
| W 21 | Frequency distributions, reusing code | ② 2-3 | ||
| F 23 | Lexical resources | ② 4 | ||
| M 26 | ||||
| W 28 | ② 5, ③ 9, | |||
| F 30 | ||||
| OCTOBER | ||||
| M 3 | ||||
| W 5 | Syntax, parsing | ⑧ 1-3 | ||
| F 7 | More parsing | ⑧ 4 | ||
| M 10 | No class | |||
| T 11 | ⑧ 4.1-4.3, ④ 1-2 | |||
| W 12 | Python style, functions, scope | No homework | ④ 3-4 | |
| F 14 | Review |
Midterm out Friday, due Wednesday |
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| M 17 | Raw text, Unicode, tokenizing | ③ 1-3 | ||
| W 19 | Searching, regular expressions | ③ 4-6 | ||
| F 21 | Segmentation, tagging | ③ 7-8, ⑤ 1-2 | ||
| M 24 | Tagging, morphology | ⑤ 3-7 | ||
| W 26 | Tagging, morphology | ⑤ 3-7 | ||
| F 28 | Tagging, morphology | ⑤ 3-7 | ||
| M 31 | Classification | HW6 | ⑥ 1 [G2] | |
| NOVEMBER | ||||
| W 2 | Classification testing | ⑥ 3, 7 [G4-6] | ||
| F 4 | No class | BUCLD | ||
| M 7 | Information extraction, chunking | HW7 | ⑦ 1-2 | |
| W 9 | Chunking, nesting, names | ⑦ 3, 5 | ||
| F 11 | Recursion, structure | ⑦ 4 | ||
| M 14 | Dependencies, developing grammars | HW8 | ⑧ 5-6 | |
| W 16 | Building grammars, Processing features, Extending grammars | ⑨ 1-3 | ||
| F 18 | Meaning, logic | ⑩ 1-2 | ||
| M 21 | First order logic | No homework | ⑩ 3 | |
| W 23 F 25 |
No class | Fall recess | ||
| W 30 | Semantics of English | HW9 | ⑩ 4 | |
| DECEMBER | ||||
| F 2 | Discourse | ⑩ 5 | ||
| M 5 | Creating a corpus | ⑪ 1-3 | ||
| W 7 | Annotating a corpus | No homework | ⑪ 4-6 | |
| F 9 | Statistics with R | TBA/R | ||
| M 12 | Semester wrap-up | |||
| Semester ends | ||||