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ICS 661, Advanced Artificial Intelligence

Tentative Schedule

Tuesday Thursday
8/21 Introduction: Why NLP?
Read Chap. 1
8/23 Regular Expressions & Finite-State Automata
Read Chap. 2
Quiz 1
8/28 N-grams
Read Chap. 4
8/30 N-grams, cont.
Quiz 2
9/4 POS tagging
Read Chap. 5
9/6 POS tagging, cont.
Quiz 3
9/11 Hidden Markov and Maximum Entropy Models
Read Chap. 6
9/13 HMMs & MEMs, cont.
Quiz 4
9/18 Formal Grammars of English
Read Chap. 12
9/20 Formal Grammars of English, cont.
Quiz 5
9/25 Syntactic Parsing
Read Chap. 13
9/27 Syntactic Parsing. cont.
Quiz 6
10/2 Statistical Parsing
Read Chap. 14
Quiz 7
10/4 Features & Unification
Read Chap. 15
10/9 Features & Unifications, cont.
Quiz 8
10/11 Midterm Exam
10/16 The Representation of Meaning
Read Chap. 17
10/18 The Representation of Meaning, cont.
Quiz 9
10/23 Computational Semantics
Read Chap. 18
10/25 Lexical Semantics
Read Chap. 19
10/30 Computational Lexical Semantics
Read Chap. 20
11/1 Computational Lexical Semantics, cont.
Quiz 10
11/6 Holiday: Election Day (go vote!!!) 11/8 Computational Discourse
Read Chap. 21
11/13 Computational Discourse, cont.
Quiz 11
11/15 Dialog & Conversational Agents
Read Chap. 24
11/20 Information Extraction
Read Chap. 22
11/22 Holiday: Thanksgiving
11/27 Machine Translation
Read Chap. 25
11/29 Machine Translation, cont.
Quiz 12
12/4 Question Answering and Summarization
Read Chap. 23
Quiz 13
12/6 Final Project Presentations
12/11 Comprehensive Final Exam Tuesday 9:45-11:45 pm
(see UHM Records & Registration for other Fall 2012 exam times).

David N. Chin / Chin@Hawaii.Edu