CS457 - Fall 2011

  • announcements
       - Assignment 4 out soon (Due Oct. 31)
       - Lunch with Anna Blasiak after class today
       - Anna Blasiak talk today, 3:15pm in Warner 202
       - Behind the scenes tour of LIS, Wednesday at 3pm in Warner Hemicycle

  • Quiz on Thursday at the start of class
       - linguistics 101
          - morphology
          - syntax

       - parsing
          - grammars, CFGs, PCFGs
          - top-down vs. bottom-up
          - CKY algorithm
             - CFG, PCFG, language modeling
          - grammar learning
          - evaluation
          - improved models
             - structural extension (vertical and horizontal markovizaton)
             - lexicalization
             - constituent splitting
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