| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | M 13:30-15:00 & by appointment message me on Google Chat/Hangouts for Zoom link | |
| Email/messaging: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Meeting time: | TTh 14:00-15:15 | |
| Alternative lab hours: | T 21:45-23:00, F 10:40-11:55 | |
| Meeting modality: | Online synchronous | |
| Classroom: | Gather (see Moodle for meeting URL) | |
| Course website: | http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jwashin1/ling073 | |
| Course wiki: | http://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073 | |
| IRC channel: | irc.freenode.net#swatling | |
| Course Piazza site: | LING 073 | |
| Course Moodle site: | LING073-01-S21 | |
| week | date | topic | due / to read (by class) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 Feb | Introductions, syllabus What (and why) is CL (and NLP)? | |
| 2 | 16 Feb | Linguistic communities Models of development, FOSS Resource identification Corpus assembly | Long (2007) - Chilean Mapuches in language row with Microsoft |
| 18 Feb | LAB | ||
| 3 | 23 Feb | Input methods | Lebedev (2004) - Where once was a comma lab 1 - documentation of resources + Initial corpus assembly |
| 25 Feb | LAB | lab 2 - keyboard layout (due on Friday) | |
| 4 | 2 Mar | Morphological typology Grammar documentation | Bird (2009) - Natural Language Processing and Linguistic Fieldwork |
| 4 Mar | LAB | lab 3 - Grammar documentation (due on Friday) | |
| 5 | 9 Mar | FSTs and morphology Analyser evaluation | |
| 11 Mar | LAB | lab 4 - Basic morphological analyser (due on Friday) | |
| 6 | 16 Mar | FSTs and phonology Generator evaluation | |
| 18 Mar | LAB | lab 5 - Basic morphological generator (due on Friday) | |
| 7 | 23 Mar | Morphological disambiguation Manual disambiguation Disambiguator evaluation | Moshagen & Trosterud (2019) - Rich Morphology, No Corpus – And We Still Made It. The Sámi Experience |
| 25 Mar | Spring break! | ||
| 8 | 30 Mar | Other applications Corpus-based approaches | lab 6 - Basic CG disambiguator |
| 1 Apr | |||
| 9 | 6 Apr | Machine translation Lexical transfer | |
| 8 Apr | LAB | lab 7 - Lexical transfer (due on Friday) | |
| 10 | 13 Apr | Lexical selection | Mahelona (2020) - Te reo Māori Speech Recognition: A Story of Community, Trust, and Sovereignty |
| 15 Apr | LAB | lab 8 - Lexical selection (due on Friday) | |
| 11 | 20 Apr | Contrastive grammars | |
| 22 Apr | LAB | lab 9 - Contrastive grammar (due on Friday) | |
| 12 | 27 Apr | Structural transfer | |
| 29 Apr | LAB | lab 10 - Structural transfer (due on Friday) | |
| 13 | 4 May | RBMT evaluation | |
| 6 May | LAB | lab 11 - Polished basic RBMT system (due on Friday) | |
| 14 | 20 May | (19:00–22:00 UTC-4) Final project presentation |