An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Natural Language Processing

Spring 2020

Announcement

Professor office hours: Tuesdays 3:30-4:30pm in 781 Soda Hall (or sometimes 306)
GSI office hours: Thursdays 5:00-6:00pm in 341B Soda Hall
This schedule is tentative, as are all assignment release dates and deadlines.
Please complete the mid-semester survey by 11:59pm Wednesday 2/26. Thanks!

Lectures

Jan 21

Introduction 1 (1up) (6up)

Jan 23

Introduction 2

Project 0 (due Thursday 1/30)

Jan 28

Language Modeling (1up) (4up)

J&M 3

Jan 30

Neural Networks (1up) (4up) (demo) (tips)

E 3.0-3.3; J&M 6; G 1-5

Feb 4

Neural LMs 1 (1up) (4up)

J&M 7; Goldberg 10-11

Project 1 (extended; due Thursday 2/20)

Feb 6

Neural LMs 2

Feb 11

Neural LMs 3

Feb 13

Machine Translation (1up) (4up)

IBM Model 1

Feb 18

Statistical MT (1up) (4up)

Stat MT Book

Feb 20

Neural MT 1 (1up) (4up)

Attention Transformer

Feb 25

Neural MT 2

Feb 27

Speech 1 (1up) (4up)

Project 2 (due Thursday 3/12)

Mar 3

Speech 2

Mar 5

Speech 3

Mar 10

Speech 4

Mar 12

Parsing 1 (1up) (4up)

Mar 17

Parsing 2

Mar 19

Parsing 3

Mar 31

Neural Parsing (1up) (4up)

Apr 2

Multilingual Models (1up) (4up)

Project 3 (due Thursday 4/16)

Apr 7

Interactive Translation (1up) (4up)

Apr 9

Semantics 1 (1up) (4up)

Apr 14

Semantics 2

Apr 16

Language reconstructing (1up) (4up)

Project 4 (due Thursday 4/30)

Apr 21

Grounding (1up) (4up)

Apr 23

Guest Lecture: Zhou Yu on Dialog

Apr 28

Guest Lecture: Eddie Chang on Speech Neuroscience

Apr 30

TBD