CIS530-computational-linguistics

Course number

CIS 530 - Computational Linguistics

Instructor

Chris Callison-Burch

Discussion Forum

Piazza

Time and place

Spring 2018, Mondays and Wednesdays 12-1:30, Towne 217

Office hours

Mondays 3-5pm (3401 Walnut room 401B)

Tuesdays 3-6pm (3401 Walnut room 401B)

Textbook

Speech and Language Processing (3rd edition draft) by Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin

The course will have weekly required readings.

Grading

The grading for the course will consist of:

<ul>
  <li>60% for weekly homework assignments</li>
  <li>20% for in-class quizzes about the readings</li>
  <li>20% for the final project</li>
</ul>

Collaboration Policy

Unless otherwise noted, you are allowed to work in pairs on the homework assignment. Both partners will receive the same grade. The final projects will have larger groups.

Late Day Policy

Each student has five free “late days”. Homeworks can be submitted at most two days late. If you are out of late days, then you will not be able to submit your homework. One “day” is defined as anytime between 1 second and 24 hours after the homework deadline. The intent of the late day policy it to allow you to take extra time due to unforseen circumstances like illnesses or family emergencies, and for forseeable interruptions like on campus interviewing and religious holidays. You do not need to ask permission to use your late days. No additional late days are granted.

Missing classes on quiz days

To allow for absences on the days that we give an in-class quiz, all students may drop their 3 lowest scoring quizzes.