| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | T&W 13:15-14:45 | |
| Email: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Lecture Time: | TTh 8:30-9:45 | |
| Classroom: | Clothier 16 | |
| Course website: | http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jwashin1/ling073 | |
| Course wiki: | http://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073 | |
| IRC channel: | irc.freenode.net#swatling | |
| Evening lab hours: | T 18:00-20:00 | |
| Course moodle site: | LING073-CPSC013-S19 | |
| week | date | topic | due / to read (by class) | materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 Jan | Introductions, syllabus What (and why) is CL (and NLP)? | ||
| 24 Jan | Materials for communities Models of development, FOSS Environment acclimation | Gideon Long - Chilean Mapuches in language row with Microsoft | ||
| 2 | 29 Jan | Input methods Resource identification | Artemy Lebedev (2004) - Where once was a comma lab 0 - documentation of resources | |
| 31 Jan | Input methods Corpus assembly | lab 1 - keyboard layout (due on Friday) | ||
| 3 | 5 Feb | Corpus assembly | Steven Bird (2009) - Natural Language Processing and Linguistic Fieldwork | |
| 7 Feb | Morphological typology Grammar documentation | lab 2 - Initial corpus assembly | ||
| 4 | 12 Feb | Grammar documentation | ||
| 14 Feb | FSTs and morphology | lab 3 - Grammar documentation | ||
| 5 | 19 Feb | FSTs and morphology Analyser evaluation | ||
| 21 Feb | FSTs and phonology | lab 4 - Basic morphological analyser | ||
| 6 | 26 Feb | FSTs and phonology Generator evaluation | ||
| 28 Feb | Morphological disambiguation Manual disambiguation | lab 5 - Basic morphological generator | ||
| 7 | 5 Mar | Morphological disambiguation Disambiguator evaluation | ||
| 7 Mar | Forming groups | lab 6 - Basic CG disambiguator | ||
| 12 Mar | Spring break! | |||
| 14 Mar | Spring break! | |||
| 8 | 19 Mar | Machine translation Lexical transfer | Forcada et al. (2011) - Apertium: a free/open-source platform for rule-based machine translation | |
| 21 Mar | Lexical transfer | lab 7 - Lexical transfer | ||
| 9 | 26 Mar | Lexical selection | ||
| 28 Mar | Lexical selection | lab 8 - Lexical selection | ||
| 10 | 2 Apr | Contrastive grammars | ||
| 4 Apr | Contrastive grammars | lab 9 - Contrastive grammar | ||
| 11 | 9 Apr | Structural transfer | ||
| 11 Apr | Structural transfer | lab 10 - Structural transfer | ||
| 12 | 16 Apr | RBMT evaluation | ||
| 18 Apr | Dependency syntax | lab 11 - Polished basic RBMT system | ||
| 13 | 23 Apr | Dependency syntax | ||
| 25 Apr | Other MT technologies Dependency transfer, phrase-structure transfer, SMT and hybrid MT, neural MT, ... | lab 12 - Dependency corpus/grammar/parser | ||
| 14 | 30 Apr | Other CL technologies, NLP bag-of-words fun, ASR, text-to-speech, ... | ||
| 2 May | Other applications for FSTs Spell checkers, paradigm generators, ... | |||
| 15 | TBA |