| Spring 2016 |
| Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:40am-12:55pm Place: 401 Hollister Instructor: Professor Claire Cardie For contact info and office hours, see top of Claire's home page |
| Readings and Materials for Classes; Assignment and Project Due Dates piazza link for the course |
| Course Description |
| Graduate-level research-focused introduction to technologies for the computational treatment of information in human-language form, covering natural-language processing (NLP) and/or information retrieval (IR). The goal of the course is to teach you how to evaluate and conduct leading-edge research in natural language processing (NLP). As a result, I'll tailor the course content to your specific interests. The majority of classes will consist of presentations and active discussion of research papers in NLP from (usually) recent top conferences (e.g. ACL, NAACL, EMNLP). The remainder of the classes are devoted to project-related presentations, exercises and discussions. (Yes, you will complete a semester-long research project, usually in a small group.) |
| Possible Topics to be Covered |
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| Reference Material |
| All reference materials are optional: Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing, Prentice-Hall, 2008 (2nd edition) Christopher Manning and Hinrich Schutze. Foundations of Statistical NLP, MIT Press, 1999. |
| Grading |
| I am most interested in your participation in productive research-oriented discussion (in class and on Piazza), interesting research proposals, and a good-faith final research project. |
| Academic Integrity |
| You are responsible for knowing and following Cornell's academic integrity policy. Absolute integrity is expected of every Cornell student in all academic undertakings; he/she must in no way misrepresent his/her work fraudulently or unfairly advance his/her academic status, or be a party to another student's failure to maintain academic integrity. The maintenance of an atmosphere of academic honor and the fulfillment of the provisions of this Code are the responsibilities of the students and faculty of Cornell University. Therefore, all students and faculty members shall refrain from any action that would violate the basic principles of this Code. Violation of the academic integrity policy will not be tolerated, and will result in an F in the course. See the University Code of Academic Integrity. |