CSC247/447: Natural Language Understanding (Spring 2003)
Instructor:
Len Schubert
Course information and goals
Available at
the Len Schubert's class page
TA: Myrosia
Dzikovska
Office hours: Mon Wed 4:30-6:00 pm or by appointment
Office: CSB626
E-mail:
myrosia@cs.rochester.edu
This is the main homepage for the course. I'll post the information related
to the course here. In addition, you're expected to read the course
newsgroup, ur.cs447 for announcements,
possible homework updates, etc. I will be reading the newsgroup
regularly, and this is a good place to post general questions
Office hours are guaranteed time when you can can see me in my office
and ask questions. But if you want answers at a different time, you can
e-mail me with a question
or to meet by appointment if necessary.
If you weren't in the first class, please send me a note , so that
I can put you on my cs244/444 mailing list, which will be used for
announcements, mailing grades etc.
Homework and projects
Homework assignments
All homework submissions should conform to conform to the homework submission requirements
Extensions
The solutions will be made available on this page the shortly after
the homework is due. No submissions will be allowed after the
solutions are published . You can get an extension under the
following rules.
- You notify me that you need an extension by email myrosia@cs.rochester.edu
before the deadline, and specify how many extra
days you need. You will get the extension provided it does not interfere
with publishing answers and code that may be needed for the
subsequent projects.
- We will apply a 0.9 multiplier to your grade for every day your
assignment is late except Sunday. Your assignment counts as a day
late if it is submitted within 24 hours of the original deadline, 2
days late between 24 and 48 hours and so on. Not counting Sundays
means that if the assignment is due on Friday and I get it on Monday
morning, it will be counted as 2 days late. Note that there are no
guarantees that I will be available on weekends to get the
hand-written assignments.
- We will also consider general penalty-free extensions for the
entire class under circumstances where we are alerted at least 48
hours before the deadline to the need for extra time (and the reasons
are good and apply to the class as a whole), and this does not disrupt
the course schedule.
Academic Honesty Policy
Students may discuss among themselves the nature of the problems
assigned, but not the solutions. If you collaborated with someone
(namely, worked on a problem with someone or shared your solution
with someone), then on your paper report who the persons are. The
points you earn on that particular problem will be divided by the
total number of students involved in the collaboration. Failure to
report collaboration, if detected, will result in a penalty---the
entire score of the paper will be reduced to zero.
Homework Solutions
Resources
Class project page
To turn in the assignment
/u/myros/commands/TURN_IN directory
LISP
Electronic dictionaries
Lecture notes
LaTeX
- There is a binder in the software lab on the bookshelves wich contains
documentation about latex, symbol tables, and commonly used latex
packages.
- Typing C-h i in Emacs brings up the info mode which includes
LaTeX manual
- Trees can be drawn with the help of
the qtree package
- Sample latex file Solutions to assignment
3
- For trees of depth greater than 20, the older dvips versions may refuse to print the
dvi file produced with qtree. Run /u/myros/commands/dvips1 to solve
the problem