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/lx394s19/schedule/. Homework is due when the block ends in the schedule below; homework 1 is due on February 4. Chapters:sections refer to the NLTK book.
| Date | Topic | Reading | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28 | Hello world | 1:1-2,5 | |
| Feb 4 |
Simple statistics, conditionals, corpora |
1:3-4; 2:1 | |
| Feb 11 |
Frequency distributions, reusing code, lexical resources |
3:2-5; 3:9 |
HW 3 (Haiku) |
| FEB 19 |
Parsing strings into syntactic structures |
8:1-3 |
HW 4 (Trees) |
| Feb 25 |
WordNet, CHILDES |
2:5 |
HW 5 (CHILDES part 1) |
| Mar 4 |
Text classification |
6:1, 3, 7 | |
| MAR 11 | Spring recess | ||
| Mar 18 |
Python style, handling differing text formats |
3:1-6; 4 | |
| Mar 25 |
Segmentation and tagging |
3:7-; 5 | |
| Apr 1 |
Information extraction |
7:1-5 |
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| Apr 8 | Developing grammars | 8:5-6, 9:1-3, 10:1-2 | |
| APR 17 | Logic, semantics of English | 10:3-5 | |
| Apr 22 |
Creating and annotating corpora |
10:5; 11:1-6 |
HW 8 (SHRDLU) |
| Apr 29 | Basic statistics | R manual sections |