| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | W 13:30-15:00 & by appointment | |
| Email/messaging: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Meeting time: | TTh 11:20-12:35 | |
| Lab hours: | Th 16:15-18:15 | |
| 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: | CPSC013-01-LING073-01-S25 | |
| week | date | topic | to read (by class) / due (on Friday) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 Jan | Introductions, syllabus What (and why) is CL (and NLP)? | |
| 23 Jan | Linguistic communities | Long (2007) - Chilean Mapuches in language row with Microsoft | |
| 2 | 28 Jan | Resource identification Library Resources? | language selection (due before class) |
| 30 Jan | guest? | ||
| 3 | 4 Feb | Corpus assembly | |
| 6 Feb | LAB | lab 1 - documentation of resources + Initial corpus assembly | |
| 4 | 11 Feb | Input methods | |
| 13 Feb | LAB | lab 2 - keyboard layout | |
| 5 | 18 Feb | Morphological typology Grammar documentation | |
| 20 Feb | LAB | lab 3 - Grammar documentation | |
| 6 | 25 Feb | FSTs and morphology Analyser evaluation | Bird (2009) - Natural Language Processing and Linguistic Fieldwork |
| 27 Feb | LAB | lab 4 - Basic morphological analyser | |
| 7 | 4 Mar | FSTs and phonology Generator evaluation | |
| 6 Mar | LAB | lab 5 - Basic morphological generator | |
| 11 Mar | Spring break! | ||
| 13 Mar | Spring break! | ||
| 8 | 18 Mar | non-symbolic approaches to NLP (guest lecture)? | |
| 20 Mar | Midterm project demos | midterm project demos (for class) | |
| 9 | 25 Mar | Machine translation Lexical transfer | |
| 27 Mar | LAB | lab 6 - Lexical transfer | |
| 10 | 1 Mar | Models of development, FOSS Ambiguity resolution: Morphological disambiguation & Lexical selection | |
| 3 Apr | LAB | lab 7 - Ambiguity resolution | |
| 11 | 8 Apr | Contrastive grammars | Mahelona (2020) - Te reo Māori Speech Recognition: A Story of Community, Trust, and Sovereignty |
| 10 Apr | LAB | lab 8 - Contrastive grammar | |
| 12 | 15 Apr | Structural transfer Constituency syntax | |
| 17 Apr | LAB | lab 9 - Structural transfer | |
| 13 | 22 Apr | RBMT evaluation | Moshagen & Trosterud (2019) - Rich Morphology, No Corpus – And We Still Made It. The Sámi Experience |
| 24 Apr | LAB | ||
| 14 | 29 Apr | LAB | lab 10 - Polished basic RBMT system |
| 1 May | LAB | ||
| 15 | TBA |