CIS 630 (Spring 2013: Seminar in Natural Language Processing)


Instructor: Ani Nenkova ( nenkova@seas.upenn.edu)

Class: MW 3-4:30 pm, Towne 305
Office Hours: By appointment

General description

The course will focus on topics in affect recognition from text and speech.

Grading

30% Project 1; text-based analysis on NYT; Project presentations Feb 25/27; Project report due Mar 6
40% Project 2; individual projects; One page proposal due March 1; Preliminary results April 17/22; Final projects due May 1
15% Questions on assigned reading and class presentation; Questions due by 9am the day of class
15% Leading discussions on assigned papers

Dictionaries

Bing Liu's opinion lexicon
Emotion words from WordNeAffect
FrameNet emotion words

Schedule