This course provides an introductory overview of the field of natural language processing. The goal of the field is to build technologies that will allow machines to understand human langauges. Applications include machine translation, automatic summarization, question answering systems, and dialog systems.

Prerequisits: You should be comfortable with linear alegbra and probability. Previous machine learning expierence is strongly recommended, although not strictly required.

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Course number

CIS 5300 - Computational Linguistics

Instructor

Mark Yatskar

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Time and place

Fall 2022, Tuesday and Thursday 3:30-5:00pm STIT B6.

Mask are required in lecture.

Lectures will be recorded and posted on Canvas.

First day of class is August 30, 2022

Last day of class is December 8, 2022

TAs

Siyi Liu , Artemis Panagopoulou, Hai-Niu Xu, Shreya Havaldar, Yifei Li, Saumya Suvarna

Office hours

TBA

Textbooks

Both textbooks are available for free on the web.

Speech and Language Processing (3rd edition draft) by Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin

Natural Language Processing by Jacob Eisenstein

The course will have weekly required readings.

Grading

The grading for the course will consist of:

• 20% for Homework 1,3, weighted equally, done in pairs
• 30% for Homework 2,4, weighted equally, done in pairs
• 20% for 10 Quizzes, roughly weekly, weighted equally, done individually
• 30% for the final project, done in a group of four.

The class is not curved. Your grade will be determined as (total regular points + extra credit points) / (total regular points) using standard grade ranges.

Collaboration Policy

Unless otherwise noted, you should work in pairs on the homework assignments. Both partners will receive the same grade. The final projects will have be done in groups of 4. Quizes must be done individually.

Late Day Policy

Each student has six free “late days,” applicable to homework or quizes. Assigments can be submitted at most three days late. If you are out of late days, then you will not be able to get credit for subsequent late assignments. One “day” is defined as anytime between 1 second and 24 hours after the homework deadline. The intent of the late day policy it to allow you to take extra time due to unforseen circumstances like illnesses. You do not need to ask permission to use your late days. Unused late days cannot be used as extra credit at the end of the semester.