CS 8761 - Natural Language Processing - Fall 2002
Class Information:
Syllabus
Required Reading and Suggested Activities
Code
The class meets on Monday and Wednesday from 3pm until 4:40 pm in Heller
Hall 302. The first class meeting is Wednesday, September 4.
Final Project : MRD + WEB => CORPUS
Project Teams . Curious about
team names?
The overall objective of this project is to create a data-driven solution
to the problem of sentiment classification (is a review positive or
negative), where the data comes from the WWW and machine readable
dictionaries.
Dec 17, 2002 : Here are the final projects as submitted by the teams. They
consist of an interface to LDOCE, an interface to the Macquarie Dictionary
(BigMac), and an interface to the WWW. Information from all of these
sources is combined to carry out sentiment classification.
- Alianza Lima system,
their algorithm
description, and analysis
of results.
- Melgar FBC system,
their algorithm
description, and analysis
of results.
- Sport Boys system,
their algorithm
description, and analysis
of results.
- Sporting Cristal system,
their algorithm
description, and analysis
of results.
- Union Minas system,
their algorithm
description, and analysis
of results.
Sentiment Classification! . Stage 3, various due dates.
review data collected by class.
More words, words, words . Stage 1
improvements, due Wed Nov 27, noon.
The web is your oyster . Stage 2, warm-up
version due Mon Nov 25, noon
Words, words, words . Stage 1, beta version
due Mon Nov 18, noon. My comments.
Final Exam Take Home Question
Final Exam, due Weds, Dec 18, noon
Programming Assignments
The Shannon Game, assignment 1, due Mon, Sept 30 noon
Some
comments on assignment protocols
and some comments on the
Shannon Game itself.
The Great Collocation Hunt, assignment 2,
due Fri, Oct 11 noon
Comments on my test cases. A
few comments on the assignment.
Read the student's reports on their experiments.
How to Find Meanings in Li(f|n)e assignment 3, due Wed, Nov 1, noon
Read the student's reports on their experiments.
A Continuing Quest for Meanings in Li(f|n)e
assignment 4, due Mon, Nov 11, noon
Read the student's reports on their
experiments.
Web Drop to Submit Assignments
click here
Perl Resources:
Sources of Text:
Other Resources:
By:
Ted Pedersen
- tpederse@umn.edu