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Course
CS 6320 Natural Language Processing
Professor
Sanda Harabagiu
Term
Fall 2011
Meetings
MW 1:00-2:15 PM ECSS 2.201
Professor’s Contact Information
Office Phone
(972) 883-4654
Office Location
ECSS 3.411
Email Address
sanda@hlt.utdallas.edu
Office Hours
MW 3:00-4:00 PM
Other Information
Class Web Page: www.hlt.utdallas.edu/~sanda/courses/NLP/cs6320.html
General Course Information
 
Pre-requisites, Co-requisites, & other restrictions
CS 5343  Algorithm Analysis & Data Structures
Course Description
The graduate Computer Science class CS 6320 on Natural Language Processing addresses key information about the linguistic foundations and algorithmic practices that enable syntactic parsing, semantic interpretation and even machine translation of texts. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the oldest discipline in Artificial Intelligence, focusing on the study of how language is used and allows people to communicate and share interpretations of written texts, verbal dialogues and express cultural inference. More information available at: www.hlt.utdallas.edu/~sanda/courses/class_description/html_nlp/cs6320.html
Learning Outcomes
CS 6320 focuses on the basic NLP techniques, including syntactic parsing, semantic interpretation, lexical and morphological analysis, pragmatic processing as well as machine translation. The fundamental algorithms for each of these areas of natural language processing are studied. The course also shows how these techniques can be applied to real world problems: spelling checking, Web-page processing, conversational agents. Students will learn how to evaluate in a scientific way the language techniques they learn and will become familiar with widely available language processing resources.
Required Texts & Materials
Speech and Language Processing: Speech and Language Processing – An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition Second Edition
 
by Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin Pearson/Prentice-Hall, Inc. 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-605234-0 ISBN-10: 0-13-605234-7
 
Suggested Texts,
 As provided in class/class web page.
 
Readings, & Materials
 Assignments & Academic Calendar
 
 August 24 2011
Introduction to Natural Language Processing
 August 29 2011
Natural Language Processing Resources
 August 31 2011
Words and English Grammar
September 5 2011
Labor Day – Holiday 
 
September 7 2011
Regular Expression and Morphology
 
Homework 1 issued
 
September 12 2011
Finite State Transducers for Language
September 14 2011
N-grams
September 19 2011
SYNTAX : Part-of-speech Tagging Project Selection
September 21 2011
Context Free Grammar for English Homework 1 due
September 26 2011
Parsing with Context Free Grammars (1) Homework 2 issued
September 28 2011
Parsing with Context Free Grammars (2)
October 3 2011
Features and Unifications
October 5 2011
Lexicalized and Probabilistic Parsing
October 10 2011
State-of-the-art Parsing
October 12 2011
Mid-Term Preparation Homework 2 due
October 17 2011
MID-TERM EXAM
October 24 2011
SEMANTICS: Representing Meaning Homework 3 issued
October 26 2011
Semantic Analysis
October 31 2011
Lexico-Semantics
November 2 2011
Word Sense Disambiguation
November 7 2011
Semantic Parsing
November 9 2011
 Application of Semantic Parsing
November 14 2011
PRAGMATICS: Metonymy and Metaphor Homework 3 due
November 16 2011
Metonymy Resolution Homework 4 issued
November 21 2011
Machine Translation
November 23 2011
Statistical Machine Translation
November 28 2011
Question Answering
November 30 2011
Multi-Lingual Question Answering Homework 4 due
December 5 2011
Project Presentations Project Due
December 5 2011
FINAL EXAM
Course Policies
Grading (credit) Criteria Homework 20% Project 30% Mid-Term Exam (20%) Final Exam (30%) Make-up Exams There will be no make-up exams unless previously requested and approved by the instructor Extra Credit There will be two extra-credit assignments Late Work If the homework is turned in after the deadline, the grade for the homework shall be reduced by 20% for the fist 24 hours, 50% for the next 24 hours and shall not be accepted after 48 hours. Special  Assignments Students may request special assignment for extra-credit Class  Attendance Highly recommended. Classroom Class participation is given extra credit.
 
Citizenship Field Trip Policies There are no field trips. Student Conduct and Discipline
The University of Texas System and The University of Texas at Dallas have rules and regulations for the orderly and efficient conduct of their business. It is the responsibility of each student and each student organization to be knowledgeable about the rules and regulations which govern student conduct and activities. General information on student conduct and discipline is contained in the UTD publication,
 A to Z Guide 
, which is provided to all registered students each academic year. The University of Texas at Dallas administers student discipline within the procedures of recognized and established due process. Procedures are defined and described in the
Rules and Regulations, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Part 1, Chapter VI, Section 3 
, and in Title V, Rules on Student Services and Activities of the university’s
Handbook of Operating Procedures 
. Copies of these rules and regulations are available to students in the Office of the Dean of Students, where staff members are available to assist students in interpreting the rules and regulations (SU 1.602, 972/883-6391).  A student at the university neither loses the rights nor escapes the responsibilities of citizenship. He or she is expected to obey federal, state, and local laws as well as the Regents’ Rules, university regulations, and administrative rules. Students are subject to discipline for violating the standards of conduct whether such conduct takes place on or off campus, or whether civil or criminal penalties are also imposed for such conduct.
 
Academic Integrity
The faculty expects from its students a high level of responsibility and academic honesty. Because the value of an academic degree depends upon the absolute integrity of the work done by the student for that degree, it is imperative that a student demonstrate a high standard of individual honor in his or her scholastic work. Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, statements, acts or omissions related to applications for enrollment or the award of a degree, and/or the submission as one’s own work or material that is not one’s own. As a general rule, scholastic dishonesty involves one of the following acts: cheating, plagiarism, collusion and/or falsifying academic records. Students suspected of academic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary proceedings. Plagiarism, especially from the web, from portions of papers for other classes, and from any other source is unacceptable and will be dealt with under the university’s policy on plagiarism (see general catalog for details). This course will use the resources of turnitin.com, which searches the web for possible plagiarism and is over 90% effective.
Email Use
The University of Texas at Dallas recognizes the value and efficiency of communication between faculty/staff and students through electronic mail. At the same time, email raises some issues concerning security and the identity of each individual in an email exchange. The university encourages all official student email correspondence be sent only to a student’s U.T. Dallas email address and that faculty and staff consider email from students official only if it originates from a UTD student account. This allows the university to maintain a high degree of confidence in

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