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Quiz grades fall into the following ranges: Range Letter 93+ A 90-92 A- 87-89 B+ 83-86 B 80-82 B- 77-79 C+ 73-76 C 70-72 C- 67-69 D+ 63-66 D 60-62 D- 59- F

Please try to arrive sharp, so the quiz can start right on time. Nikhil and Te will proctor the quiz, as I am out of town at a conference. Friday is the first day of break, so we have no class.… Continue Reading →

Hi All, I will assume that you will be familiar with most of the basic formulas from the material I presented in class. This would include: Bayes’ Theorem MLE MI and PMI Smoothing functions The basic similarity functions for distributions… Continue Reading →

Here are some sample questions with answers. These are from a previous year (2012). This is not all the topics mentioned in the previous post.

Here is a summary of the topics we will cover for the quiz on Tuesday, as mentioned in class on Friday. Types of ambiguity: lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic FSAs and Finite-state Transducers: basic principles examples Edit Distance: judge similarity of… Continue Reading →

Hi Everyone, Sorry I was unable to make it to class, as I was called away to solve a snow-related emergency at home. I trust that Nikhil and Te covered part-of-speech tagging and the Viterbi algorithm with you. I will… Continue Reading →

Due to the obvious reasons, our missed class today will be covered on Friday. We will finish up the discussion on n-grams, and then move on, given time, to the noisy channel model. See you then, and stay safe during… Continue Reading →

The material for Lab 1 is posted on the website. The content covered in the lab is not extraneous. It will be on the quiz and essential for understanding the material in the upcoming lecture.  The lab exercise is due… Continue Reading →

The first assignment has been posted. We will post the assignments on github. If you don’t know how to use git, you should go ahead and follow the instructions on the class website here http://www.cs-114.org/assignments/ After the lecture tomorrow, you should… Continue Reading →

Please fill out the time preference for lab here. http://doodle.com/kqf2ap2muimdmg2h