Natural Language Processing and Text Mining, Spring 2023 (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. 10:10-12:00am,
TA: Mr. Yan (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: Jan. 7, 2023
References:
- Chris Manning and Hinrich Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press. Cambridge, MA: May 1999.

Latest News

May 15, 2023: [NOTE] HW#3 has been announced.
Apr. 10, 2023: [NOTE] HW#2 has been announced.
Mar. 15, 2023: [NOTE] HW#1 has been announced.
Feb. 19, 2023: The homepage for Natural Language Processing and Text Mining (Spring 2023, Undergraduates) has been set up.

Tentative Schedule

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

Week	Date	Content	Homework
1	Feb. 20 & 22, 2023	Course Overview Introduction to NLP
2	Feb. 27 & Mar. 1, 2023	(2/27: Compensation Leave for 228 Peace Memorial Day) Introduction to text mining
3	Mar. 6 & 8, 2023	Ch.2, Text processing
4	Mar. 13 & 15, 2023	Ch.3, Language modeling	HW#1
5	Mar. 20, 22 & 25, 2023	Ch.4, Sentiment analysis (3/22: Leave for Annual Sports Meet) 3/25: Make-up Class for Children's Day
6	Mar. 27 & 29, 2023	Ch.5, Nayes Bayes and Logistic Regression	Due: HW#1
7	Apr. 3 & 5, 2023	(4/3: Bridge holiday for Children's Day) (4/5: Leave for Tomb Sweeping Day)
8	Apr. 10 & 12, 2023	Ch.6, Vector semantics and embeddings Ch.8, Introduction to POS & NER	HW#2
9	Apr. 17 & 19, 2023	Ch.7, Neural language models
10	Apr. 24 & 26, 2023	(4/26: Midterm Exam -- Ch.1-8)	Term project proposal
11	May 1 & 3, 2023	Word embeddings	Due: HW#2 5/3 Due: Term project proposal
12	May 8 & 10, 2023	Phrase mining
13	May 15 & 17, 2023	Named Entity Recognition (NER)	HW#3
14	May 22 & 24, 2023	Pattern-based text mining
15	May 29 & 31, 2023	Taxonomy mining	Due: HW#3
16	Jun. 5 & 7, 2023	Term project presentation
17	Jun. 12 & 14, 2023	Term project presentation
18	Jun. 19 & 21, 2023	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 4 homeworks during this semester.

HW#1: Sentiment classification
Due: Mar. 29, 2023
HW#2: Named Entity Recognition
Due: May 1, 2023
HW#3: Similarity estimation using Word embeddings
Due: May 29, 2023

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

Exams

Midterm Exam: Apr. 17 - 22, 2023.
- Date: Apr. 26, 2023 (TBD)
- Time: 10:10-12:00am
- Location: R307, 2nd Teaching Building
- Range: Ch.1-8
Final Exam: Jun. 15 - 21, 2023.

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: Jan. 13, 2023.
Last Updated: May 15, 2023.