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This is a introductory course in computational linguistics at an advanced level. No pre-requisites for graduate students, we will learn the rudiments of programming and the theoretical underpinnings of grammar systems from scratch. Reference Textbook Optional: Speech and Language Processing 2nd edition, by D. Jurafsky and J.H. Martin, Prentice-Hall 2008. Or 3rd edition PDF. Software
All software used in this class will be freely available.
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Instructor: Sandiway Fong sandiway@arizona.edu
Office: Douglass 311 (send email for an appointment or
take a chance and drop by before/after class)
| Location | Psychology, Rm 206 |
| Time | Tuesdays/Thursdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM |
| Date | Lecture Notes | Number of Slides |
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| 8/26 | lecture1.pdf | lecture1.pptx | 36 | Viewer | Administrivia and Introduction. Syllabus.
Homework 1: read PDF of chapter 1 of textbook for Homework 3 next time here. Homework 2: Install Perl and Python. A note on programming languages. AI and coding. |
| 8/28 | lecture2.pdf | lecture2.pptx | 32 | Viewer | Language and computers: openai /whisper, assitive technologies and
limits. Recursive nature of language. Introduction to natural
language analysis: syntactic structure. Parser demos, ChatGPT.
Homework 3 |
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| 9/2 | lecture3.pdf | lecture3.pptx | 25 | Viewer | Homework 3 Review. What is a Language Model: a look at text completion. English subject verb agreement. Quotes. ChatGPT-2 to 5. Homework 4: using GPT-2, Stanza and Berkeley Neural Parser. |
| 9/4 | lecture4.pdf | lecture4.pptx | 18 | Viewer |
Beginning programming with Perl: focusing on
proper use of quotes. QWERTY keyboard history. ChatGPT help.
world.perl / world.py |
| 9/9 | lecture5.pdf | lecture5.pptx | 33 | Viewer | Homework 4 review and extensions. A bit more on quoting. Installing WSL2 / Ubuntu on Windows 11. perlintro: scalars and arrays. |
| 9/11 | lecture6.pdf | lecture6.pptx | 35 | Viewer | perlintro contd. Numeric and string
equality. Coercion. Repetition. General looping: while, for,
foreach. List range. Useful string functions, including chomp and
split. tr. String length: bytes vs. characters.
File I/O: open and <filehandle>. Files: falconheavylaunch.txt Homework 5. HW files: 3letters.txt / 4letters.txt / 5letters.txt / 6letters.txt |
| 9/16 | lecture7.pdf | lecture7.pptx | 25 | Viewer | Homework 5 review. Scrabble word
length statistics. Worked file
I/O example. Split and summing the words. Word frequency table using
hash tables. Sorting in Perl, Python and on the command line.
Files: falconheavylaunch.txt Terminal log: terminal7.txt |
| 9/18 | lecture8.pdf | lecture8.pptx | 29 | Viewer | Hash and dict in Perl and Python, respectively. Anonymous arrays
in Perl. Part of Speech dict example. Homework 6 on spelling rules +
disemvoweling.
Files: hw6template.perl |
| 9/23 | lecture9.pdf | lecture9.pptx | 37 | Viewer | Homework 6 review. Perl references. Perl Modules:
cpan. Date::Calc. Python library timedate.
Ungraded homework: install Lingua::EN::CMUDict, the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. File: dow.perl |
| 9/25 | lecture10.pdf | lecture10.pptx | 37 | Viewer | Digital advertising. Clickbait. Homework 7. Perl regex. |
| 9/30 | lecture11.pdf | lecture11.pptx | 22 | Viewer | A note on Homework 7. ChatGPT and clickbait.
"The lines of code that changed everything" Getting deeper into Perl regex. Capture, backreferences, shortest vs. greedy matching, nondeterminism (backtracking). Does Clickbait Actually Atract More Clicks? Three Clickbait Studies You Must Read |