Requirements

The goals of this course are for us to gain experience in:

• exploring the state of the art for dependency parsing,
• 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 dependency grammar formalisms.

In addition to leading and participating in discussions, students taking the class for a grade will also participate in the class project, an implementation of a dependency parsing system using NLTK, and will write an individual final paper. FInal papers should somehow involve dependency grammars and natural language processing, but need not be restricted to the methods we cover in class. Ideally, the final paper should be something that could be submitted to one of the many computational linguistics conferences.