UW LIN570 (Winter 2020), Shallow Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing

https://github.com/jungyeul/shallow-processing-uw [Syllabus]

Schedule

Date	Description	Course Materials
Jan 6		[syllabus & course policy]
	preprocessing
6-8	tokenization	Suggested Readings: [Tokenization: Returning to a Long Solved Problem] [slides] [HW1]
13-15	sentence boundary detection	Suggested Readings: [Sentence Boundary Detection and the Problem with the U.S.] [Sentence Boundary Detection: A Long Solved Problem?] [slides] [HW2]
	morphology
15	automata and transducers	[slides]
22-29	morphological segmentation	Suggested Readings: [Empirical Methods for Compound Splitting] [Morphological Segmentation Inside-Out] [Unsupervised Discovery of Morphemes] [slides] [aktionsplan] [HW3] [HW3+]
Feb 3	morphological paradigm	Suggested Readings: [Supervised Learning of Complete Morphological Paradigms] [slides] [HW4]
5-10	language models	[slides] [HW5]
	pos tagging & sequence labeling algorithms
12	morphosyntax tasks in nlp	Suggested Readings: [Part-of-Speech Tagging, Chap.8 in SLP (3rd ed.)] [Chunking, CoNLL-2000 Shared Task] [Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition, CoNLL-2003 Shared Task] [Semantic Role Labeling, CoNLL-2004 and CoNLL-2005 Shared Tasks] [slides]
12	classification	[slides]
19	mallet	Suggested Readings: [MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit] [slides] [HW6]
24-26	hmm pos tagging	Suggested Readings: [A Tutorial on HMMs] [TnT - Statistical Part-of-Speech Tagging] [slides] [HW7] [HW8]
Mar 9	maxent pos tagging	Suggested Readings: [A Maximum Entropy Model for Part-Of-Speech Tagging] [A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing] [slides] [HW9]
	machine translation
11	document alignments & word alignments	Suggested Readings: [A Program for Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora] [The Mathematics of Statistical Machine Translation] [slides]

office-hours

1:30-2:30PM on Monday and Wednesday (418A, Guggenheim Hall). Otherwise, upon appointment. To schedule an appointment, please send me an email, jungyeul at uw.edu

TA

Isaac Manrique, imanriq at uw.edu