| Date |
Lectures |
Complementary
Readings |
Assigned
Readings |
| Sept 11 |
Introduction (slides) DC2568 |
||
| Sept 13 |
Vector Space Model (slides) DC2568 |
[JM] Section 23.1 [MRS] Sections 6.2-6.3 |
|
| Sept 18 |
Machine Learning and Decision
Trees (slides) DC2568 |
|
|
| Sept 20 |
Document classification:
Support Vector Machines (slides) DC2585 |
[MRS] Chapter 15 |
|
| Sept 25 |
Document classification:
Naive Bayes model No lecture, instead watch video (slides) |
[JM] Section 20.2.2 [MRS] Chapter 13 |
|
| Sept 27 |
Expectation Maximization for
text categorization No lecture, instead watch video (slides) |
[MRS] Section 16.5 |
|
| Oct 2 |
WordNet (slides) DC2568 |
[JM] Section 19.3 |
|
| Oct 4 |
Latent Semantic Indexing (slides) DC2585 |
[MRS] Chapter 18 |
|
| Oct 9 |
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (slides) DC2585 |
||
| Oct 11 |
No new material DC2585 |
||
| Oct 16 |
Sentiment Analysis and
Opinion Mining (slides) DC2585 |
David Blei and John Lafferty,
Topic
Models Presenters: Atif Khan and Han Zhao |
|
| Oct 18 |
Named entity recognition (slides) DC2585 |
[JM] Section 22.1 |
|
| Oct 23 |
Hidden Markov models and
conditional random fields (slides) DC2585 |
[JM] Section 5.5 |
Hu and Liu (2004), Mining
and Summarizing Customer Reviews Presenters: Maysum Punju and Aarti Malhotra Assignment 1 due |
| Oct 25 |
No new material DC2568 |
Project proposal due |
|
| Oct 30 |
Coreference resolution (slides) DC2568 |
[JM] Sections 21.3-21.8 |
Jenny Rose Finkel, Trond
Grenager, and Christopher Manning (2005), Incorporating
Non-local Information into Information Extraction Systems
by Gibbs Sampling Presenters: KunXiong and Rabail Ali |
| Nov 1 |
Dirichlet Processes (board
lecture) DC2585 |
||
| Nov 6 |
Relation detection and
classification (slides) DC2585 |
[JM] Section 22.2 |
Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein
(2007), Unsupervised
Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model Presenters: Hui Zhao and Ankit Pat |
| Nov 8 |
Relation extraction (slides) DC2585 |
[JM] Section 22.2 Dekang Lin and Patrick Pantel, DIRT - Discovery of Inference Rules from Text |
|
| Nov 13 |
Dependency Parsing (slides) DC2585 |
[JM] Section 12.7 Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira, Kiril Ribarov and Jan Hajic, Non-projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms |
Limin Yao, Aria Haghighi,
Sebastian Riedel, Andrew McCallum (2011), Structured
Relation Discovery using Generative Models Presenters: Corona and Yuchen Gao |
| Nov 15 |
Dependency Parsing (slides) DC2585 |
Assignment 2 due Nov 18 |
|
| Nov 20 |
Question Answering (slides) DC2585 |
[JM] Section 23.1-23.2 |
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan,
Tat-Seng Chua (2005) Question Answering Passage Retrieval Using Dependency Relations Presenter: Grace Yang |
| Nov 22 |
Question Answering (slides) DC2585 |
||
| Nov 27 |
Watson and Jeopardy (slides) DC2585 |
David Ferrucci, Eric Brown,
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, James Fan, David Gondek, Aditya A.
Kalyanpur, Adam Lally, J. William Murdock, Eric Nyberg, John
Prager, Nico Schlaefer, and Chris Welty (2010) Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project |
|
| Nov 29 |
Dialog Systems (slides) DC2585 |
[JM] Chapter 24 |
Assignment 3 due Dec
2 |