CS 6890: Natural Language Processing

Vladimir A. Kulyukin
Department of Computer Science
Utah State University
vladimir.kulyukin@usu.edu

Syllabus

Announcements

• Septemeber 24, 2008. There was a typo in Slide 75 of Lecture 4. The last bullet point on this slide read "The Completer can expand VP -> Verb*NP, [0, 1], to VP->Verb NP*, [0, 1]." It now reads "The Completer can expand VP -> Verb*NP, [0, 1], to VP->Verb NP*, [0, 3]."

Lectures

• Lecture 1
• Lecture 2
• Several Observations on the FST for the E-Insertion Rules
• Lecture 3
• Lecture 4
• Lecture 5
• Lecture 6
• Lecture 7
• Lecture 8
• Lecture 9
• Lecture 10
• Lecture 11: Project Presentations
• Lecture 12
• Ben Marchant's Presentation
• Lecture 13

Assignments

• Read Sections 1 and 2 in M. Mohri, Finite-State Transducers in Language and Speech Processing.
• Assignment 2 (Reading Part): Read Sections 1, 2, and 3 in R. M. Kaplan and M. Kay, Regular Models of Phonological Rule Systems. Due: Sept. 15, 2008.
• Assignment 2 (Programming Part). Due: Sept. 22, 2008.
• Assignment 3. Due: Oct. 6, 2008.
• Assignment 4
  • William Woods. Aggressive Morphology for Robust Lexical Coverage.Presenter: Ali
  • William Woods. Transition Network Grammars for Natural Language Analysis.Presenter: Dan
• Assignment 5
  • B. Lavoie, O. Rambow, E. Reiter. Customizable Descriptions of Object-Oriented Models. Presenter: Ben
  • B. Lavoie, O. Rambow. A Fast and Portable Realizer for Text Generation Systems. Presenter: Seth
  • J. Milicevic. A Short Guide to the Meaning-Text Linguistic Theory. This paper is for everyone to read.
• Assignment 6
  • E. Reiter, R. Dale. Building Applied Natural Language Generation Systems. Presenter: Aswani
  • E. Reiter. NLG vs. Tempaltes. Presenter: Padmakar
• Assignment 7
  • Assignment 7
  • Installing Festival on Windows
• Assignment 8
  • Assignment 8
  • Alan Black, Paul Taylor, Richard Caley. The Festival Speech Synthesis. University of Edinburgh, 2001.