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Schedule and readings are subject to change

Schedule and Readings

Week Date Topic Readings
Week 1 Tue, Aug 29 Welcome
Week 1 Thu, Aug 31 Introduction to computational morphology
Week 2 Tue, Sep 05 Set Theory and Functions
Week 2 Thu, Sep 07 Turing Machines
Week 3 Tue, Sep 12 The Chomsky Hierarchy
Week 3 Thu, Sep 14 Drawing in LaTeX using TikZ/PGF
Week 4 Tue, Sep 19 Finite State Machines
Week 4 Thu, Sep 21 Regular Expressions and Finite State Machines
Week 5 Tue, Sep 26 xfst/foma
Week 5 Thu, Sep 28 Morphology
Week 6 Tue, Oct 03 xfst/foma
Week 6 Thu, Oct 05 Morphology
Week 7 Tue, Oct 10 lexc
Week 7 Thu, Oct 12 Hands-on
Week 8 Tue, Oct 17 lexc
Week 8 Thu, Oct 19 Planning and Managing Finite-State Projects
Week 9 Tue, Oct 24 Testing and Debugging
Week 9 Thu, Oct 26 Flag Diacritics
Week 10 Tue, Oct 31 Applications
Week 10 Thu, Nov 02
Week 11 Tue, Nov 07
Week 11 Thu, Nov 09 Weighted FSMs
Week 12 Tue, Nov 14 Probabilistic models
Week 12 Thu, Nov 16 No class
Week 13 Tue, Nov 21 Thanksgiving Vacation
Week 13 Thu, Nov 23 Thanksgiving Vacation
Week 14 Tue, Nov 28
Week 14 Thu, Nov 30 Two-level phonology
Week 15 Tue, Dec 05 Optimality Theory
Week 15 Thu, Dec 07 Supervised learning
Week 16 Tue, Dec 12 Unsupervised learning
  • Goldsmith, Segmentation and Morphology
  • Roark and Sproat, Chapter 5 - "Machine Learning of Morphology"
Week 16 Thu, Dec 14 Reading day