Natural Language Processing and Text Mining, Spring 2024 (Undergraduates)

This course offers an introduction to the concepts in natural language processing and the applications in text mining. This is offered as an elective course in the undergraduate program.

Course Information

Instructor: Jenq-Haur Wang
E-mail: jhwang AT <the domain for our school>
Office: R1534, Technology Building, ext. 4238
Office Hours: Tue & Fri. 9:10-12:00am
Class Hours: Mon. 15:10-16:00pm, Wed. 15:10-17:00pm,
TA: Mr. Hung (R1424, Technology Building)
Textbook:
- Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin. Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)
- Online draft available at: https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
- Current edition of the draft: Feb. 3, 2024
References:
- Chris Manning and Hinrich Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press. Cambridge, MA: May 1999.

Latest News

Apr. 23, 2024: [NOTE] Due to the upcoming construction work in Teaching Building 3, the last two weeks of this semester will be online.
Apr. 14, 2024: [NOTE] HW#2 hass been announced.
Mar. 18, 2024: [NOTE] HW#1 has been announced.
Mar. 18, 2024: Note that there will be no class for the whole day on Mar. 20 for the Annual Sports Meet. But if the Sports Meet were cancelled due to the rain, the class will be held as usual.
Feb. 19, 2024: The homepage for Natural Language Processing and Text Mining (Spring 2024, Undergraduates) has been set up.

Tentative Schedule

NOTE: The tentative schedule and the slides are subject to changes.

Week	Date	Content	Homework
1	Feb. 19 & 21, 2024	Course Overview Introduction to NLP
2	Feb. 26 & 28, 2024	Ch.2 - Text processing (2/28: Leave for 228 Peace Memorial Day)
3	Mar. 4 & 6, 2024	Ch.2 - Edit Distance
4	Mar. 11 & 13, 2024	Ch.3, N-gram Language models
5	Mar. 18 & 20, 2024	Ch.4, Naive Bayes, Text Classification, and Sentiment (3/20: Leave for Annual Sports Meet)	HW#1
6	Mar. 25 & 27, 2024	Ch.5, Logistic Regression
7	Apr. 1 & 3, 2024	Ch.5	Due: HW#1
8	Apr. 8 & 10, 2024	(4/8: Sick leave for the teacher) Ch.6, Vector semantics and embeddings
9	Apr. 15 & 17, 2024	Ch.8, Introduction to POS & NER	HW#2
10	Apr. 22 & 24, 2024	Ch.7, Neural language models	Term project proposal
11	Apr. 29 & May 1, 2024	(5/1: Midterm Exam -- Ch.1-8)	Due: HW#2 5/1 Due: Term project proposal
12	May 6 & 8, 2024	Phrase mining
13	May 13 & 15, 2024	Named Entity Recognition (NER)	HW#3
14	May 20 & 22, 2024	Pattern-based text mining
15	May 27 & 29, 2024	Taxonomy mining	Due: HW#3
16	Jun. 3 & 5, 2024	Term project presentation
17	Jun. 10 & 12, 2024 (online)	(6/10: Leave for Dragon Boat Festival) Term project presentation
18	Jun. 17 & 19, 2024 (online)	Term project presentation

Homework Assignments

Please hand in your homework in paper form or in electronic files before deadline.
Programs or homework in electronic files must be submitted to me via our submission site as follows:

Program Submission Site: iSchool+
User Account: your account in Taipei Tech Portal
Program Uploading: Please compress source codes and documentation in a .zip file, and clearly name your program files.
Note: If your program needs special environment or tool to compile or run, please write documentation about it.

There will be around 3-4 homeworks during this semester.

HW#1: Sentiment classification
Due: Apr. 1, 2024
HW#2: Similarity estimation using Word embeddings
Due: Apr. 29, 2024
HW#3: Named Entity Recognition

If you have any questions about the homework, please contact with the TA and me via e-mail.

Exams

Midterm Exam: Apr. 15 - 20, 2024.
- Date: May 1, 2024
- Time: 15:10-17:00pm
- Location: R232, Technology Building
- Range: Ch.1-8
Final Exam: Jun. 17 - 22, 2024.

There will be no final exam for this course. Instead, we have the term project presentation in the last two to three weeks.

Score

E-mail: jhwang AT <the domain for our school>
Created: Feb. 19, 2024.
Last Updated: Apr. 26, 2024.