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Course Schedule
Week
1: 26 January 2009
Mon:
10.15 Room 12J04B
L01: Introduction to Natural Language Processing
and Spoken Dialogue |
Mon:
2.15 - 4.05 Room
16C27
P01b:
Introduction to VoiceXML and spoken language applications
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Tues:
12.15-1.05 Room 17E26
P01a:
Introduction to VoiceXML
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Tues: 3.15
Room 17E22
L02: Formal models |
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| Reading:
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 1 |
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Week 2:
2 February 2009
Mon:
10.15 Room 12J04B
L03:
Basic probability theory |
Mon:
2.15 - 4.05 Room
16C27
P02:
Forms, Menus and Simple Grammars
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Tues:
12.15-1.05 Room 17E26
L04:
Spelling correction
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Tues: 3.15
Room 17E22
Tutorial |
| Reading:
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 3, pp. 106-111 |
Week 3:
9 February 2009
Mon:
10.15 Room 12J04B
L04:
Spelling correction
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Mon:
2.15 - 4.05 Room
16C27
P03: The Form Interpretation Algorithm |
Tues:
12.15-1.05 Room 17E26
Language
models: N-grams
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Tues: 3.15
Room 17E22
Language
models: N-grams |
| Reading:
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 5, pp. 197-202; Chapter 4,
pp. 117-229 |
Week 4:
16 February
2009
Mon:
10.15 Room 12J04B
L06:
POS tagging |
Mon:
2.15 - 4.05 Room
16C27
P04:
Events,
error handling, ECMAScriptSRGS: |
Tues:
12.15-1.05 Room 17E26
L06:
POS tagging
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Tues: 3.15
Room 17E22
Tutorial |
| Reading:
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 5, pp. 157-178 |
Week 5: 23 February 2009
Mon:
10.15 Room 12J04B
L07: Grammar (Syntactic approaches)
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Mon:
2.15 - 4.05 Room
16C27
P05:
Speech recognition
grammar specification |
Tues:
12.15-1.05 Room 17E26
L07:
Grammar (Syntactic approaches)
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Tues: 3.15
Room 17E22
Statistical
Grammar
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| Reading:
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 12, pp. 419-428, 446-453;
Chapter 24, pp. 858-861 |
Week 6: 2 March 2009
Mon:
10.15 Room 12J04B
L09:
Parsing |
Mon:
2.15 - 4.05 Room
16C27
P06:
Mixed Initiative dialog and Form grammars |
Tues:
12.15-1.05 Room 17E26
L09:
Parsing
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Tues: 3.15
Room 17E22
Tutorial
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| Reading:
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 13 |
Week 7: 9
March 2009
Mon:
10.15 Room 12J04B
L09:
Parsing
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Mon:
2.15 - 4.05 Room
16C27
P07: VoiceXML - additional topics |
Tues:
12.15-1.05 Room 17E26
L10: Speech technology |
Tues: 3.15
Room 17E22
L11:
Dialogue Engineering |
| Reading:
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 24, pp. 857-858, 872-874 |
Week 8: 16 March
2009
Mon:
10.15 Room 12J04B
L12: Spoken dialogue technology - introduction
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Mon:
2.15 - 4.05 Room
16C27
L13:
Spoken dialogue technology - linguistic aspects
Assignment preparation
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| Holiday |
Holiday |
| Reading:
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 24, pp. 847-857 |
Week 9: 23 March
2009
Mon:
10.15 Room 12J04B
L14: Spoken dialogue
technology - dialogue management |
Mon:
2.15 - 4.05 Room
16C27
Assignment
preparation |
Tues:
12.15-1.05 Room 17E26
L15:
Spoken dialogue technology - dialogue acts |
Tues: 3.15
Room 17E22
L15:
Spoken dialogue technology - dialogue acts |
| Reading:
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 24, pp. 863-868, pp. 874-882 |
Week 10:
30
March 2009
Mon:
10.15 Room 12J04B
L16: Information state update theory |
Mon:
2.15 - 4.05 Room
16C27
Assignment preparation |
Tues:
12.15-1.05 Room 17E26
L17:
Reinforcement learning |
Tues: 3.15
Room 17E22
L17:
Reinforcement learning |
| Reading:
Jurafsky & Martin Chapter 24, pp. 863-868, pp. 882-886 |
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Easter Vacation
Week 11:
20 April 2009
Mon:
10.15 Room 12J04B
Presentations
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Mon:
2.15 - 4.05 Room
16C27
Demos |
Tues:
12.15-1.05 Room 17E26
Presentations
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Tues: 3.15
Room 17E22
Presentations |
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Week 12: 30 April
2007
Mon:
10.15 Room 12J04B
Presentations |
Mon:
2.15 - 4.05 Room
16C27
Demos |
Tues:
12.15-1.05 Room 17E26
Revision
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Tues: 3.15
Room 17E22
Revision |
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