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Ling 795: Analyzing Web Texts (Spring 2006)
| Semester | Spring 2006 |
|---|---|
| Course type | Seminar |
| Instructor | Rob Malouf |
| Time | T 19:00–21:40 |
| Location | AH 2132 |
Requirements
The goals of this course are for us to gain experience in:
- exploring the state of the art of linguistically motivated techniques for analyzing web texts,
- reading and evaluating the primary literature,
- presenting and discussing research material with peers,
- identifying open research questions,
- and designing and carrying out our own experiments.
Through the term, participants (including auditors!) will present and discuss articles from the reading list, which cover a number of aspects of text and web mining.
In addition to leading and participating in discussions, students taking the class for a grade will also prepare a final project. Projects should somehow involve web texts and NLP, but need not be restricted to the methods we cover in class. Ideally, the final project should be something that could be submitted to one of the many computational linguistics conferences.
The final grade will be based on class participation and on a project that applies text mining technology to a useful and interesting problem:
| Project proposal (<1 page) | Feb 28 | 10% |
| Annotated bibliography | March 21 | 10% |
| Data set | April 4 | 10% |
| Final project | May 18 | 50% |
| Class participation | — | 20% |
Working in groups (of 2 or 3) is strongly encouraged!