| Lecture |
Topics |
Complementary
Readings |
Assigned
Readings |
| Sept 11 |
Course overview |
MS1, JM1 |
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| Sept 13 |
Linguistic essentials |
MS3 |
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| Sept 18 |
Elementary probability theory |
MS2,5 |
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| Sept 20 |
Inference and n-gram models |
MS6, JM4 |
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| Sept 25 |
Basics of machine learning |
lecture
slides |
|
| Sept 27 |
Vector Space Model |
MS15.2, MRS6 |
|
| Oct 2 |
Latent semantic analysis, Bayes
nets, Expectation Maximization |
MS15.4, MRS18, lecture
slides |
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| Oct 4 |
Information theory, entropy,
Kullback-Leibler divergence |
MS2.2 |
Probabilistic
Latent Semantic Indexing Presenters: John Whissel and Reid Kerr |
| Oct 9 |
Hierarchical Bayesian models,
variational expectation maximization |
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| Oct 11 |
Linear classifiers, perceptrons |
Latent
Dirichlet Allocation Presenters: Tyler Lu and Andy Chiu |
|
| Oct 16 |
Support vector machines,
probably approximately correct learning |
|
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| Oct 18 |
kernels |
Text
Categorization with Support Vector Machines: Learning with Many
Relevant Features Presenters: Richard Fung and Terry Park |
|
| Oct 23 |
convolution kernels |
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| Oct 25 |
Maximum entropy principle |
Convolution
Kernels for Natural Language Presenters: Abtin Azari and Norris Arab |
|
| Oct 30 |
Maximum entropy models |
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| Nov 1 |
Markov Models |
A
Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing Presenters: Lin Xu and Hwayoung Kim |
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| Nov 6 |
Conditional Random Fields |
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| Nov 8 |
Statistical Relational Learning |
Conditional
Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling
Sequence Data Presenters: Adam Hartfiel and Wilson Hsu |
|
| Nov 13 |
Relational Markov Networks |
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| Nov 15 |
Markov Logic |
Collective
Information Extraction with Relational Markov Networks Presenters: Annie Lee and Farheen Omar |
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| Nov 20 |
Markov Logic Networks |
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| Nov 22 |
Course wrap up |
Joint
Inference in Information Extraction Presenters: Luiz Gomes and Ruonan Li Group and Topic Discovery from Relations and Text Presenter: Adam Fourney |
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| Nov 27 |
Project presentations |
Tyler Lu John Whissel Wilson Hsu Annie Lee |
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| Nov 29 |
Project presentations |
Andy Chiu Richard Fung HwaYoung Kim Ruonan Li |
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| Dec 4 |
Project presentations |
Reid Kerr Adam Hartfiel Terry Park Adam Fourney |
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| Dec 6 |
Project presentations *11:00am - 12:50pm* Project report deadline |
Lin Xu Farheen Omar Abtin Azari Norris Arab Luiz Gomes |