LING 073 / CPSC 013 — Spring 2023
Computational Linguistics

Professor:Jonathan North Washington
Office:Pearson 105
Office phone:x6134
Office hours:T 13:30-15:00
F 10:30-11:30 (Clothier 16)
& by appointment
also available by messaging on Google Chat
Email/messaging: jwashin1@swarth...more.edu
 
Meeting time:TTh 9:55-11:10
Lab hours: Th 17:00-22:00
Physical classroom:Clothier 16
Course website: http://jnw.domains.swarthmore.edu/ling073
Course wiki: http://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073
IRC channel: irc.oftc.net#swatling
Course Moodle site: LING073-01-CPSC013-01-S23

Course Syllabus

Schedule (subject to change)

weekdatetopicto read (by class) / due (on Friday)
1 17 Jan

Introductions, syllabus

What (and why) is CL (and NLP)?

19 Jan

Linguistic communities

Long (2007) - Chilean Mapuches in language row with Microsoft

Environment setup

2 24 Jan

Resource identification

language selection (due before class)

26 Jan

guest

3 31 Jan

Corpus assembly

Library Resources

2 Feb

LAB

lab 1 - documentation of resources + Initial corpus assembly

4 7 Feb

Input methods

Lebedev (2004) - Where once was a comma

9 Feb

LAB

lab 2 - keyboard layout

5 14 Feb

Morphological typology

Grammar documentation

Janhunen & Gruzdeva (2016) - Bringing the orthography of an indigenous language to the digital age: The case of Nivkh in the Russian Far East

16 Feb

LAB

lab 3 - Grammar documentation

6 21 Feb

FSTs and morphology

Analyser evaluation

Bird (2009) - Natural Language Processing and Linguistic Fieldwork

23 Feb

LAB

lab 4 - Basic morphological analyser

7 28 Feb

FSTs and phonology

Generator evaluation

Kornai (2013) - Digital Language Death

2 Mar

LAB

lab 5 - Basic morphological generator

7 Mar

Spring break!

9 Mar

Spring break!

8 14 Mar

Morphological disambiguation

Manual disambiguation

Disambiguator evaluation

Moshagen & Trosterud (2019) - Rich Morphology, No Corpus – And We Still Made It. The Sámi Experience

16 Mar

LAB

lab 6 - Basic CG disambiguator

9 21 Mar

non-symbolic approaches to NLP (guest lecture)

23 Mar

Midterm project demos

midterm project demos (for class)

10 28 Mar

Machine translation

Lexical transfer

Khanna et al. (2021) - Recent advances in Apertium, a free / open-source rule-based machine translation platform for low-resource languages (§1, §2, §5)

30 Mar

LAB

lab 7 - Lexical transfer

11 4 Apr

Models of development, FOSS

Lexical selection

Pedersen (2008) - Empiricism Is Not A Matter of Faith

6 Apr

LAB

lab 8 - Lexical selection

12 11 Apr

Contrastive grammars

Mahelona (2020) - Te reo Māori Speech Recognition: A Story of Community, Trust, and Sovereignty

13 Apr

LAB

lab 9 - Contrastive grammar

13 18 Apr

Structural transfer

Romero (2016) - Bill Gates speaks Kʼicheeʼ! The corporatization of linguistic revitalization in Guatemala

20 Apr

LAB

lab 10 - Structural transfer

14 25 Apr

RBMT evaluation

Bird (2020) - Decolonising Speech and Language Technology

27 Apr

LAB

lab 11 - Polished basic RBMT system

15 9 May

(14:00-17:00) Final project presentation