Schedule

Weekly progress report

Date	Topic	Reading	Slides	Assignment Due
15-Jan-F	1. Introduction		link
19-Jan-T	2. Brief History of Corpus Linguistics	Chapters 1-2	link
22-Jan-F	3. Examples of Annotation Tasks	Chapter 3	link
26-Jan-T	4. Corpus Analysis		link	Group forming and Contract
29-Jan-F	5. Corpus Statistics		link
02-Feb-T	Topic Showcase			Annotation Goal
05-Feb-F	Case Study Presentation			Case study presentation
09-Feb-T	6. Writing Formal Specification and Guidelines		link (guideline) link (DTD)	Task Description
12-Feb-F	Project Showcase			Initial Annotation Spec Begin MAMA cycle
16-Feb-T	MIDTERM RECESS (no class)
19-Feb-F	MIDTERM RECESS (no class)
23-Feb-T	7. Reliability of Corpora		link
26-Feb-F	Annotation Specifications Check-up			Full Annotation Spec
01-Mar-T	8. Guidelines for Large Scale Projects		link (THYME proejct)
04-Mar-F	Guidelines Presentation
08-Mar-T	Guidelines Presentation (cont.)			Annotation Guideline and Corpus
11-Mar-F	9. Inter-annotator agreement – Kappa		link (Kappa example)	Begin Swap Annotation
15-Mar-T	10. Inter-annotator agreement – Alpha 11. Pairwise Similarity Judgment		link (PSJ)
18-Mar-F	Group Feedback			Weekly progress report
22-Mar-T	12. Feature Selection		link
25-Mar-F	MARCH RECESS (no class)			Weekly progress report
29-Mar-T	13. Feature Representation for ML		link
01-Apr-F	14. Interoperable Annotation		link	Weekly progress report
05-Apr-T	Defining Machine Learning Task
08-Apr-F	15. Human Learning and Machine Learning			Weekly progress report
12-Apr-T	16. Techniques in Machine Learning
15-Apr-F	Adjudication in Practice			Annotation Done Begin Adjudication
19-Apr-T	17. Crowd-sourced NL annotation	link1 link2
21-Apr-Th	(Brandeis Friday) 18. Managing Corpora			Annotation Report
26-Apr-T	SPRING RECESS (no class)
29-Apr-F	SPRING RECESS (no class)			Gold Standard Release
03-May-T	STUDY DAY (no class)
08-May-F	FINAL			LAW paper deadline (optional)
11-May-W	FINAL			Presentations at 1 pm
16-May-Sa	FINAL			Paper

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