Staff

Prof. Robert C. Berwick

berwick@csail.mit.edu

32-D728, x3-8918

Office hours: Weds. 1-3pm



Course Support

Lynne Dell

lynne@mit.edu

32-D724, 617-324-1543

TA: Geza Kovacs

gkovacs@mit.edu

Office hrs: Thu, 3:30-4:30pm

32G, 7th floor lounge



Course Time & Place

Lectures: M, W 11-12:30 PM

Room: 32-124, map



Level & Prerequisites

Undergrad/Graduate; 6.034 or permission of instructor



Policies

Textbooks & readings

Grading marks guide

Style guide



Course Description

A laboratory-oriented course in the theory and practice of building computer systems for human language processing, with an emphasis on how human knowledge of language can be integrated into natural language processing.

Download here: acrobat.dmg



This subject qualifies as an Artificial Intelligence and Applications concentration subject, Grad H level credit.

This term it also qualifies as a course 6 AUS subject.



Textbooks required for puchase or reference:

Jurafsky, D. and Martin, J.H., (JM) Speech and Language Processing (on library reserve, Barker P98.J87 2009)

2nd edition, Prentice-Hall: 2008.

Some of the chapters from the revised edition may be posted in pdf form, as per the schedule shown on the homepage.

Additional textbook readings available FREE online in: Manning & Schütze, (MS) Statistical Natural Language Processing, from MIT Cognet here.

Announcements:

• Week 9: Project topics and sources described here, and listed here.

• Week 7: Assignment 5 posted here.

• Week 6: Assignment 4 posted here.

• CGW handout now posted here.

• Lecture 8 notes posted here.

• Week 3-4: We will NOT be assigning a Competitive Grammar Writing (CGW)'checkpoint' exercise, but you should read the handout when it's posted and make sure you know how to run the programs on Athena.

• Week 3: Lecture notes for lectures 6 & 7 here.

• Week 3: Lecture notes for lectures 2 & 3 here; notes for Lecture 4 here. Notes for lecture 5 here.

(but please see revisions in lecture 6-7 notes)

• Week 2: Assignment 2, context-free grammars, available here; zip files for assigment here; latex answer template zip file here

• Week 1: Reading & response 1, available here, turn in ONLY after Monday in-class discussion.

• Week 1: Fun NLP link of the week: Postmodernist paper generator. Try 'writing' a new paper by following this link.

• Week 1: And then, if you think the 'hard' sciences are immune, you can follow this link



Class days in blue , holidays in green , reg add/drop dates in orange .