| DATE | TOPIC | READINGS | ASSIGNMENT | LINKS | |
| 01/13 | Goals of CL | SLP Chapter 1 | Regular Expressions | Wikipedia on REs | |
| 01/16 | Finite State Transducers | SLP Chapter 3 | Morphology | Finite State Transducers | |
| 01/20 | Edit Distance | SLP Chapter 2 | HW1 out | Edit Distance | |
| 01/23 | N-grams | SLP Chapter 4 | Ngram Models | ||
| 01/27 | Blizzard of 2015 | Read | Drink hot chocolate | Extra Work | |
| 01/30 | N-grams (part 2) and Noisy Channel Model | SLP Chapter 5 | HW2 out | dataset | ||
| 02/03 | Naive Bayes and Classifiers | SLP Chapter 6 | Naive Bayes Slides | ||
| 02/06 | Classifiers and Sentiment Analysis | NaiveBayesClassifiers-AI | |||
| 02/10 | Hidden Markov Models 1/2 | SLP Chapter 7 | LogisticRegressionSlides | ||
| 02/13 | Hidden Markov Models 2/2 | HMM-Slides | HW2 due. HW3 out | dataset | ||
| 02/17-02/20 | Winter Break | ||||
| 02/24 | Part-of-Speech Tagging | SLP Chapter 8 | POS Tagging Slides | ||
| 02/27 | Syntactic Parsing | HW3 due. HW4 out | |||
| 03/03 | Cocke–Younger–Kasami Algorithm | Syntax and CYK Slides | |||
| 03/06 | Probabilistic CFGs | PCFG:starting at slide 129 | |||
| 03/10 | Probabilistic CFGs | Collins: starting at slide 172 | Memory Based Statistical Parsing | inside outside | |
| 03/13 | Dependency Parsing | Nivre Slides 2009 | HW5 out on github and HW4 due | ||
| 03/17 | Lexical Semantics | Lexical Semantics Slides | Semantic Roles | ||
| 03/20 | Distributional Semantics 1/2 | Evert and Lenci Slides 1 | HW5 part one due | ||
| 03/24 | Distributional Semantics 2/2 | Evert and Lenci Slides 2 | |||
| 03/27 | Review | HW6 out and HW5 part two due | |||
| 03/31 | Quiz | ||||
| 04/03-04/10 | Spring Break | ||||
| 04/14 | Machine Translation | SLP Chapter 25 | |||
| 04/17 | Machine Translation | MT part 1 slides | HW7 out and HW6 Due | ||
| 04/21 | MT Evaluation;Temporal Reasoning | MT part 2 slides | |||
| 04/24 | TBA | ||||
| 04/28 | TBA |