CSCI 1460 : Introduction to Computational Linguistics

CSCI 1460 is taught by Professor Eugene Charniak (ec).
Lectures are held every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 2:00 to 2:50PM on Zoom.

To contact the TAs, please email cs1460tas@lists.brown.edu

Assignments

Out Due
Parse Reranker Fri, Jan 22 Fri, Feb 5
Multilingual Machine Translation Sat, Feb 6 Thu, Feb 18
Zeroshot Machine Translation Tue, Feb 16 Tue, Feb 23
Transformer Wed, Feb 24 Wed, Mar 3
GPT-2 Tue, Mar 2 Tue, Mar 9
Chatbot Tue, Mar 9 Thu, Mar 25
BERT Thu, Mar 18 Fri, Apr 9
Final Project (Paper) Thu, Mar 11 Wed, Apr 21

Lectures

Date Topic Readings Recording
Wed, Jan 20 Introduction, Parsing video
Fri, Jan 22 Parsing Parsing as Language Modeling [required]
video
Mon, Jan 25 Parsing Understanding LSTMs video
Wed, Jan 27 Parsing Accuracy, Precision, Recall or F1?
In-Order Transition-based Constituent Parsing
In Order Tree Traversal
video
Fri, Jan 29 Parsing video
Mon, Feb 1 Machine Translation Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units [required]
video
Wed, Feb 3 Machine Translation Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation video
Fri, Feb 5 Machine Translation video
Mon, Feb 8 Machine Translation video
Wed, Feb 10 Machine Translation video
Fri, Feb 12 Machine Translation video
Wed, Feb 17 Machine Translation video
Fri, Feb 19 Machine Translation video
Mon, Feb 22 Machine Translation video
Wed, Feb 24 Transformer video
Fri, Feb 26 Transformer video
Mon, Mar 1 Transformer video
Wed, Mar 3 Transformer video
Fri, Mar 5 Transformer video
Mon, Mar 8 Transformer video
Wed, Mar 10 Transformer video
Fri, Mar 12 Transformer video
Mon, Mar 15 Transformer video
Wed, Mar 17 Transformer video
Fri, Mar 19 Transformer video
Mon, Mar 22 Transformer video
Wed, Mar 24 Transformer video
Fri, Mar 26 Transformer video
Mon, Mar 29 Transformer video
Wed, Mar 31 Transformer video
Fri, Apr 2 Transformer video
Mon, Apr 5 Transformer video
Wed, Apr 7 Transformer video
Mon, Apr 12 Transformer video
Wed, Apr 14 Transformer video

Staff

Name Login Hours Location
Eugene Charniak (Professor) ec By Appointment Zoom
Tucker Berckmann tberckma See Calendar Signmeup
Luca Fonstad lfonstad See Calendar Signmeup
Tian Yun tyun See Calendar Signmeup

Hours