CSE 390 : Natural Language Processing

Start	End	Slides	Recommended Reading	Additional Reading	Assignments
Jan 26th	Jan 28th	Introduction Language Modeling Part I	JM Chapter 4	Empirical Study of Smoothing. [Chen and Goodman, 1998]
Feb 9th	Feb 11th	Language Modeling Part II Text Categorization	JM Chapter 4.		Assignment 1 Issued (Feb 9th).
Feb 16th	Feb 18th	Part-of-Speech Tagging	JM POS Tagging -- Chapter 5	JM Hidden Markov and Maximum Entropy Models -- Chapter 6
Feb 23rd	Feb 25th	Part-of-Speech Tagging	JM POS Tagging -- Chapter 5	JM Hidden Markov and Maximum Entropy Models -- Chapter 6	Assignment 1 Due (Feb 22nd). Assignment 2 Issued (Feb 23rd).
Mar 1st	Mar 3rd	POS Tagging continued	[...]	[...]	[...]
Mar 8th	Mar 10th	Syntactic Parsing	[...]	[...]	[...]
Mar 15th	Mar 17th	Spring Recess	Spring Recess	Spring Recess	Spring Recess
Mar 22nd	Mar 24th	Dependency Parsing	[...]	[...]	Assignment 2 Due (Mar 27th).
Mar 29th	Mar 31st	Mid-term week	[...]	[...]	Mid-term this week.
Apr 5th	Apr 7th	Information Extraction 1. Relation Extraction 2. Named Entity Recognition	[...]	[...]	Assignment 3 Issued. Projects selected by Apr 15th.
Apr 12th	Apr 14th	Relation Extraction continued.	[...]	[...]	Assignment 3 Due (Apr 7th).
Apr 19th	Apr 21st	Information Retrieval	[...]	[...]	Project progress report due Apr 19th.
Apr 26th	Apr 28th	Textual Entailment	[...]	[...]	[...]
May 3rd	May 5th	Question Answering	[...]	[...]	[...]
May 3rd	May 5th	Question Answering	[...]	[...]	[...]