11-713 Advanced NLP Seminar

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course aims to improve participants' knowledge of current techniques, challenges, directions, and developments in all areas of NLP (i.e., across applications, symbolic formalisms, and approaches to the use of data and knowledge); to hone students' critical technical reading skills, oral presentation skills, and written communication skills; to generate discussion among students across research groups to inspire new research. In a typical semester, a set of readings will be selected (with student input) primarily from the past 2-3 years' conference proceedings (ACL and regional variants, EMNLP, and COLING), journals (CL, JNLE), and relevant collections and advanced texts. Earlier papers may be assigned as background reading. In 2010, the readings will primarily be recent dissertations in NLP. The format of each meeting will include a forty-minute, informal, critical student presentation on the week's readings, with presentations rotating among participants, followed by general discussion. Apart from the presentation and classroom participation, each student will individually write a 3-4-page white paper outlining a research proposal for new work extending research discussed in class - this is similar to the Advanced IR Seminar.

Prerequisites: none listed

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