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/lx390f17/schedule/. Homework is due when the block ends in the schedule below; homework 1 is due on September 12.

Date	Topic	Reading	Homework
September
T 5	Hello world	Ch.1: 5, 1-2	HW 1
T 12	Simple statistics, conditionals, corpora	Ch.1: 3-4; Ch.2: 1	HW 2
T 19	Frequency distributions, reusing code, lexical resources, WordNet, formatting strings	Ch.2: 2-3, 4, 5; Ch.3: 9	HW 3
T 26	(WordNet,) parsing syntax	Ch.8: 1-3	HW 4
October
T 3	(WordNet,) CHILDES	Ch.2: 5	HW 5
T 10	No class (BU Monday)
T 17	Python style, structures, scope, functions, raw text, Unicode, tokenizing, regular expressions	Ch.3: 1-3, 4-6	Midterm
T 24	Tagging, morphology, training	Ch. 5	HW 6
T 31	Classification and testing	Ch.6: 1, 3, 7
November
T 7	First order logic, semantics of English	Ch.10: 1-5	HW 7
T 14	SHRDLU and natural language processing	(sort of Ch.8: 5-6; Ch.9: 1-3)	HW 8
T 21	Projects, CHILDES, BNC, Twitter	...
T 28	Discourse, creating and annotating corpora	Ch.10: 5, Ch.11: 1-3, 4-6	HW 9
December
T 5	Statistics with R	TBA (R)	Final
T 12	Semester wrap-up