Schedule

Notes:

Schedule is subject to change.
Slides will be posted throughout the semester, but feel free to get look at the schedule from LIN313, Spring 2013 to see previous slides.
Assignments are due by class time (9:30am) on their due date.
DBM refers to Dickinson, Brew and Meurers.
Readings are given in short format, e.g. DBM 1:1-12 means “DBM Chapter 1, pages 1-12, to be read by class on the date it appears.

Week	Date	Topic	Reading	Assignment
1	1/19	Course Introduction
	1/21	Text Encoding	DBM 1:1-12
2	1/26		DBM 1:12-17
	1/28	Forensic Linguistics
3	2/2			HW1: Encoding Language
	2/4
4	2/9	Document Classification	DBM 5:127-151
	2/11
5	2/16		Evaluating HowOldNet	HW2: Forensic Linguistics
	2/18	Spelling Correction (Dickinson’s Writer’s aid slides; My supplementary slides)	DBM 2:33-49
6	2/23
	2/25	Guest lecture: Katrin Erk		HW3: Document Classification
7	3/1	Midterm Exam Review
	3/3	Midterm Exam
8	3/8	Cryptography
	3/10
Spring Break	3/15	*****	*****	*****
	3/17	*****	*****	*****
9	3/22	Machine Translation	DBM 7:181-194
	3/24		DBM 7:194-209	HW4: Spelling correction
10	3/29
	3/31	Grammars	DBM 2:49-65, Steedman & Baldridge, Baldridge & Hoyt	Note: Taking notes during lecture is particularly important for the grammar unit, in which we’ll discuss categorial grammar.
11	4/5			HW5: Cryptography
	4/7
12	4/12	Dialogue & Consciousness (see also Markus Dickinson’s Dialogue slides	DBM 6:153-177
	4/14
13	4/19			HW6: Machine Translation
	4/21
14	4/26	Impact of Language Technology	DBM 8:215-220, Emotional Contagion
	4/28		Machine learning & human bias	HW7: Grammars and Dialogue
15	5/3		Considering ad-based revenue models
	5/5	Final Exam Review
Exam week		Final Exam: 5/13, 2-5pm CLA 1.106		Essay: Social context of language and computers (due 5/9, 9:30am)

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