| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | M 3:45-5:15pm, T 1:30-3:00pm, by appointment | |
| Email: | jwashin1@swarth... | |
| Lecture Time: | TTh 11:20am-12:35pm | |
| Classroom: | Trotter 201 | |
| Course website: | http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jwashin1/ling073 | |
| Course wiki: | http://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073 | |
| IRC channel: | sccs.swarthmore.edu#cl | |
| Course moodle site: | S17 - LING073.01 | |
| week | date | topic | due / to read (by class) | materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 Jan | Introductions, syllabus What (and why) is CL (and NLP)? | ||
| 19 Jan | Materials for communities Models of development, FOSS Environment acclimation | Zeki Ergas (2011) - Language, Culture, and Development: Mapudungun vs. Microsoft: A Case Study | ||
| 2 | 24 Jan | Input methods Resource identification | Artemy Lebedev (2004) - Where once was a comma lab 0 - documentation of resources | |
| 26 Jan | Input methods Corpus assembly | Steven Bird (2009) - Natural Language Processing and Linguistic Fieldwork lab 1 - keyboard layout (due on Friday) | ||
| 3 | 31 Jan | Corpus assembly | ||
| 2 Feb | Morphological typology Grammar documentation | lab 2 - Initial corpus assembly | ||
| 4 | 7 Feb | Grammar documentation | ||
| 9 Feb | FSTs and morphology | lab 3 - Grammar documentation | ||
| 5 | 14 Feb | FSTs and morphology Analyser evaluation | ||
| 16 Feb | FSTs and phonology | lab 4 - Basic morphological analyser | ||
| 6 | 21 Feb | FSTs and phonology Generator evaluation | ||
| 23 Feb | Morphological disambiguation Manual disambiguation | lab 5 - Basic morphological generator | ||
| 7 | 28 Feb | Morphological disambiguation Disambiguator evaluation | ||
| 2 Mar | RBMT and contrastive grammars Forming groups | lab 6 - Basic CG disambiguator | ||
| 7 Mar | Spring break! | |||
| 9 Mar | Spring break! | |||
| 8 | 14 Mar | Contrastive grammars | Forcada et al. (2011) - Apertium: a free/open-source platform for rule-based machine translation | |
| 16 Mar | Lexical transfer | lab 7 - Contrastive grammar | ||
| 9 | 21 Mar | Lexical transfer | ||
| 23 Mar | Lexical selection | lab 8 - Lexical transfer | ||
| 10 | 28 Mar | Lexical selection | ||
| 30 Mar | Structural transfer | lab 9 - Lexical selection | ||
| 11 | 4 Apr | Structural transfer | ||
| 6 Apr | RBMT evaluation | lab 10 - Structural transfer | ||
| 12 | 11 Apr | RBMT evaluation | ||
| 13 Apr | Dependency syntax | lab 11 - Polished basic RBMT system | ||
| 13 | 18 Apr | Dependency syntax | lab 12 - Dependency corpus/grammar/parser | |
| 20 Apr | Other MT technologies Dependency transfer, phrase-structure transfer, SMT and hybrid MT, neural MT, ... | |||
| 14 | 25 Apr | Other CL technologies, NLP bag-of-words fun, ASR, text-to-speech, ... | ||
| 27 Apr | Other applications for FSTs Spell checkers, paradigm generators, ... | |||
| 15 | 5 May 9:00 - 12:00 |