Structured Prediction for Language and Other Discrete Data

11-763 | Spring 2018

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Structured Prediction for Language and Other Discrete Data | 11-763 | Spring 2018

At a Glance

  • Instructor: Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick : tberg@cs.cmu.edu : GHC 6403 : Tuesdays (12pm to 1pm)
  • Instructor: Bhiksha Raj : bhiksha@cs.cmu.edu : GHC 6705 : By appointment
  • TA: Chaitanya Ahuja : cahuja@cs.cmu.edu : GHC 5719 : Thursdays (4pm to 5pm) or by appointment
  • TA: Simral Chaudhary : simralc@cs.cmu.edu
  • TA: Shubham Tripathi : shubhamt@cs.cmu.edu : LTI 5th floor kitchen area : Fridays (12pm to 1pm)
  • Location: NSH 3002
  • Time: Monday/Wednesday 4.30pm - 5:50pm
  • Textbook: Noah A. Smith, Linguistic Structure Prediction
  • Syllabus subject to substantial change!

Syllabus

DateTopicBookFurther ReadingsLecture Slides
Jan 17 Introduction 1
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Jan 22 Introduction 2
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Jan 24 HMM review
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Jan 29 Decoding
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Jan 31 Recitation / Questions (Chaitanya)
Inference (Prof. Taylor)
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Feb 5 Multi Document Summarization
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Feb 7 Approches to Inference
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Feb 12 Probability
LSP Ch. 2 [pdf]
Feb 14 Natural Language Parsing with Context-Free Grammars
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Feb 19 Natural Language Dependency Parsing
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Feb 21 Soft Inference
LSP Ch. 5 [pdf]
Feb 26 Soft Inference 2
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Feb 28 Recitation 2 by Chaitanya
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Mar 7 MBR Decoding
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Mar 19 Approximate Inference - Local Search and MCMC
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Mar 26 Lagrangian Relaxation
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Mar 28 Conditional Random Fields
LSP Ch. 3.3 [pdf]
Apr 2 Experimentation and Empirical Risk Minimization
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Apr 4 Learning Generative Models
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Apr 9 Expectation Maximization
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Apr 11 Structure and Support Vector Machines
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Apr 16 Neural Networks for structured prediction 1
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Apr 18 Neural Networks for structured prediction 2
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Apr 23 Unsupervised Learning with Features
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Apr 25 Neural CRF (Chaitanya)
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Apr 30 Neural Sequence Models - CTC
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May 2 TBA
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