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Staff Prof. Robert C. Berwick berwick@csail.mit.edu 32-D728, x3-8918 Office hours:  Th 2-3 Course Support Lynne Dell lynne@mit.edu 32-D724, 617-324-1543 TA: Igor Malioutov igorm@mit.edu 32D-740 Office hrs: Fri 10-12pm Course Time & Place Lectures: M, W 3-4:30 PM Room: 4-145,  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.

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.

Textbook required for puchase or reference (on library reserve, Barker P98.J87 2009):
Jurafsky, D. and Martin, J.H., Speech and Language Processing
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.

For sagar: Mantel2; atkinsstuff;

Announcements:
• Week 12: HKN course evaluation form now available here. Please fill it out! Thanks!
• Week 10: Laboratory 5 released here; due April 27, midnight, EDT.
• Week 8: Laboratory 4 released here; due Sunday April 10, midnight, EDT.
• Week 7: Laboratory 3 now due Friday, April 1, 6 pm EDT
• Week 7: Please read over projects on the projects page, here.
• Week 6: RR #2 released here, due Sunday 6pm EST & then Monday as per usual; in-class discussion Monday.
Reading by Saffran & Newport here.
• Week 6: Lab 3 released here.
• Week 5: IMPORTANT NOTE: DUE DATE for Lab 2 is NOW MONDAY, MARCH 7. LAB 3 not released until then!
• Week 4: Lab 2 released here.
• Week 2: CGW lab
• Week 1: Reading & response 1, available here, due Sunday 6pm & then 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.

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