Below we've collated all the reading links for your convenience.
Date | Topic | Reading |
Tue 5/3 | Introduction and Preprocessing |
JM3 Ch. 2
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Wed 6/3 | Information Retrieval with the vector space model |
IIR Chapter 6
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Tue 12/3 | Index compression and efficient query processing |
IIR Chapter 5
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Wed 13/3 | Query completion and query expansion |
IIR Chapter 9
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Tue 19/3 | Index construction and advanced queries |
IIR Chapter 4
Liu, Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval , section 1.3: Learning to Rank |
Wed 20/3 | IR Evaluation and Learning to Rank |
IIR Chapter 8
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Tue 26/3 | Text classification |
JM3 Ch. 4
JM3 Ch. 5 alternatively E18 2.1, 4-4.1, 4.3-4.4.1 |
Wed 27/3 | Ngram language modelling (error corrected in slides 28/3, again) |
E18 Ch 6 (skipping 6.3)
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Tue 2/4 | Lexical semantics |
JM3 C.1-C.3
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Wed 3/4 | Distributional semantics |
E18 14-14.6 (skipping 14.4)
or JM3 Ch. 15 |
Tue 9/4 | Part of Speech Tagging |
JM3 8.1-8.3, 8.5.1
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Wed 10/4 | Deep learning for language models and tagging |
E18 6.3 (skip 6.3.1), 7.6
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Tue 16/4 | Information Extraction |
JM3 Ch. 17 - 17.2
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Wed 17/4 | Question Answering |
JM3 Ch. 23 (skip 23.1.7, 23.2.3, 23.3)
E18 17.5.2 (skipping methods) |
Mon 22/4 | Easter break | |
Tue 30/4 | Probabilistic Sequence Modelling |
JM3 Ch. A.1, A.2, A.4
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Wed 1/5 | Language theory and automata |
E18 Chapter 9.1 (skip starred parts)
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Tue 7/5 | Context-Free Grammars |
JM3 Ch. 10.1-10.5
JM3 Ch. 11-11.2 |
Wed 8/5 | Probabilistic Parsing (slides and notebook updated to correct mistakes, 8/5/19) |
JM3 Ch. 12-12.6
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Tue 14/5 | Dependency parsing |
JM3 Ch. 13
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Wed 15/5 | Discourse |
JM2 Ch. 21 (21.1-21.3, 21.5-21.6)
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Tue 21/5 | Machine Translation, word based models |
JM2 Chapter 25, intro, 25.3-25.6
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Wed 22/5 | Machine translation, phrase based translation and neural encoder-decoder |
JM2 Chapter 25, 25.7-25.9
E18 18.3–18.3.2 |
Tue 28/5 | Memory-enhanced models for Discourse Understanding (Fei Liu) | |
Wed 29/5 | Subject review |
exams from previous years on the library website (2017 most relevant)
see LMS for solutions to 2017 exam |