Schedule

Notes:

Schedule is subject to change.
Slides will be posted throughout the semester, but feel free to get look at the schedule from last semester's course to see previous slides.
Assignments are due by class time (11:00am) on their due date.
"DBM" refers to the draft book by Dickinson, Brew and Meurers.

Week	Dates	Topics	Materials	Assignments
1	8/30	Course introduction	Course introduction slides
2	9/4 9/6	Writing systems	DBM: Chapter 1 Text encoding slides
3	9/11 9/13	Forensic linguistics	Forensic linguistics slides	HW 1: Encoding Language (due 9/13)
4	9/18 9/20	Forensic linguistics Document classification	Document classification slides
5	9/25 9/27	Document classification [Guest lecture: Mike Speriosu] Crowdsourcing [Guest lecture: Matt Lease]	Crowdsourcing slides	HW2: Forensic linguistics (due 9/27)
6	10/2 10/4	Spelling correction	Writer's aids slides (by Markus Dickinson) Spelling correction slides
7	10/9 10/11	Spelling correction Cryptography	Cryptography slides	HW3: Document classification (due 10/9)
8	10/16 10/18	Cryptography Midterm review (10/16) Midterm (10/18)
9	10/23 10/25	Cryptography Machine translation	Machine translation slides
10	10/30 11/1	Machine translation		HW4: Spelling correction (due 10/30)
11	11/6 11/8	Grammars	NOTE: Taking notes during lecture is particularly important for this unit, in which we'll discuss categorial grammar. However, a lot of background (much more detail than you need to know) is available in the following papers. Steedman and Baldridge (2011) Baldridge and Hoyt (to appear)	HW5: Cryptography (due 11/8)
12	11/13 11/15	Grammars Dialogue and Consciousness	Dialogue Systems (by Markus Dickinson) Dialogue and Consciousness slides	HW6: Machine Translation (due 11/15)
13	11/20	Dialogue and Consciousness
14	11/27 11/29	Dialogue and Consciousness Language and the Internet	Language and the Internet slides	HW7: Grammars and Dialogue (due 11/29)
15	12/4 12/6	Language and the Internet Review
Exam Week		Final Exam: 12/12, 7-10pm		Essay: Social context of language and computers (due 12/11, 11am)