Syllabus for Information Extraction 10-707 in Fall 2010

This is the syllabus for Information Extraction 10-707 in Fall 2010. The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.

September

• Wed 9/8: Organizational meeting and overview of IE
• Mon 9/13: Overview of Relation Extraction and Some Case Studies
• Wed 9/15: NER via classification
• Mon 9/20: HMMs, CMMs, and MEMMs
• Wed 9/22: Linear-chain CRFs
• Mon 9/27: Meta-learning: Stacking and Sequential Models
• Wed 9/29: Meta-learning: Searn for Sequential Classification
  • One page proposal for a project due

October

• Mon 10/4: Perceptrons as margin learners
• Wed 10/6: Ranking perceptrons and NER
  • Due today: sign up for a slot to give your presentation. -- i.e., put your name in one of the student presentation slots below.
• Fri 10/8: no class, but
  • One or two page team proposal for project due
• Mon 10/11: Long-range dependencies and general CRFs
  • Student presentation
• Wed 10/13: Relation extraction with kernels
  • Student presentation
• Mon 10/18: More relation and fact extraction
  • Student presentation
• Wed 10/20: Overview of Bootstrapping; the KnowItAll system
  • Student presentation
• Mon 10/25: The TextRunner system
  • Student presentation
• Wed 10/27: The Read-the-Web System
  • Student presentation

November

• Mon 11/1: IE and Reasoning - WHIRL
  • Student presentation
• Wed 11/3: IE and Reasoning - IE and reasoning 2 - Joint inference and MLNs
  • Student presentation
  • Two page status update on project due
• Mon 11/8: IE and Reasoning 3 - Joint Inference and Bootstrapping
  • Student presentation
• Wed 11/10: TBD
  • Student presentation
• Mon 11/15: Graph-based methods for set expansion 1
  • Student presentation
• Wed 11/17: Graph-based methods for set expansion 2
  • Student presentation
• Mon 11/22: TBD
• Wed 11/24: Thanksgiving--no class
• Mon 11/29: TBD

December

• Wed 12/1: Project presentations
• Mon 12/6: Project presentations.
• Wed 12/8: Project presentations.
• Fri 12/10: Final project writeup is due.
  • Your writeup should be submitted in the format used by the ICML 2009 Conference, which is 8 pp double-column. You should send your paper to me via email by midnight Samoa time on 12/11.