Natural Language Processing - 202-2-5211

Assignments	Date	Additional Notes
Final Assignment (doc file)	Due date: March 20	Contact me ASAP for your questions yaeln@cs.bgu.ac.il I'll add relevant links/files during the next days.
First/Second Assignments(doc file)	First assignment due date: Dec 23, 2001 Second assignment due date: Jan 3, 2002	Treebank tagset NOTE I put in lead /spaceware/symmetrix1/segel/treebank/ALL two files: ALL contains all tagged files of WSJ merged into one, and LEXICON which is a file with tupples WORD TAG FREQUENCY, the words are in lowercase unless they are Proper Nouns (and left as were found in the corpus) Note: you have to implement the supervised version of the tagger, here is a link for a short paper describing the algorithm. .

Classes	Date	Additional References
Class 1 - Introduction (ppt file)	Oct 22, 2001	How to pass the turing test by cheating? (J. Hutchens and M. Alder) YNET about AI company and their little HAL YNET about Eliza and David Avidan Hal and Dave Bowman A pick on speech recognition Translating with Babel Fish in AltaVista
Class 2 - Morphology (ppt slides)	Oct 25, 2001	Some on-line morphological analyzers and other morphological links (for many languages)
Class 3 - N-grams (ppt slides)	Oct 29, 2001
Class 4 - Spelling correction and N-grams (ppt slides)	Nov 1, 2001
Class 5 - N-grams - smoothings (ppt slides)	Nov 5, 2001
Class 6 - Parts of speech - introduction (ppt slides)	Nov 8, 2001
Class 7 - Markov models for POS in Hebrew - Guest lecturer: Meni Adler (no slides)	Nov 12, 2001
Class 8 - Markov models for POS in Hebrew Cont. - Guest lecturer: Meni Adler (no slides)	Nov 14, 2001
Class 9 - Transformation-Based learning of POS, some lisp. (ppt slides)	Nov 19, 2001	Eric Brill, Transformation Based Error-Driven learning and NLP: A Case Study in Part of Speech Tagging. Eric Brill, Unsupervised Learning of Disambiguation Rules for Part of Speech Tagging Later I'll put here a link to lisp introduction and lisp instructions.
Class 10 -(ppt slides)	Nov 28, 2001
Class 11 - (ppt slides)	Nov 26, 2001
Class 15 - Semantics (ppt slides)	Dec 17, 2001
Class 16 - Semantic Analisys (ppt slides)	Dec 19, 2001
Class 17 - Parsing with meaning - Norvig	Dec 24, 2001	Instructions for running lisp (especially in your emacs.)
Class 18 - Lexical Semantics (ppt slides)	Dec 26, 2001	Wordnet page Use WordNet online
Class 19 - Some more on Lexical semantics, and Natural Language Generation - Introduction (ppt slides LS and ppt slides - NLG)	Dec 31, 2001	ACL special interest group in Natural Language Generation -SIGGEN
Class 20 - NLG - introduction to FUF	Jan 2, 2002	An online FUF manual
Class 21 - FUF cont.	Jan 9, 2002
Class 22 -SURGE	Jan 13, 2002	How to run FUF
Class 23 -SURGE cont.	Jan 16, 2002