| 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@swarthno scrapers please...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 | |
| week | date | topic | to 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 9 Feb | LAB | lab 2 - keyboard layout | |
| 5 | 14 Feb | Morphological typology Grammar documentation | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 30 Mar | LAB | lab 7 - Lexical transfer | |
| 11 | 4 Apr | Models of development, FOSS Lexical selection | |
| 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 | |
| 20 Apr | LAB | lab 10 - Structural transfer | |
| 14 | 25 Apr | RBMT evaluation | |
| 27 Apr | LAB | lab 11 - Polished basic RBMT system | |
| 15 | 9 May | (14:00-17:00) Final project presentation |