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== August/September ==
 
== August/September ==
 
 
 
== September ==
 
  
 
* Tues 8/30. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 08-30-2011|Introduction/Overview]] (Noah)
 
* Tues 8/30. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 08-30-2011|Introduction/Overview]] (Noah)
 
* Thus 9/1. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 09-01-2011|HMMs as structured-output prediction models]]. (William)
 
* Thus 9/1. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 09-01-2011|HMMs as structured-output prediction models]]. (William)
* Tues 9/6. HMMs to MEMMs. (Noah)
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* Tues 9/6. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 09-06-2011|HMMs to MEMMs]]. (William)
* Thus 9/8. CRFs. (William).
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* Thus 9/8. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 09-08-2011|CRFs]]. (William).
* Tues 9/13. Pseudo-likelihood inference. (William).
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* Mon 9/12. '''Add a short project proposal to the wiki''' (even one sentence might be enough).
* Thus 9/15. Conditional structure vs conditional estimation. (Noah).
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* Tues 9/13. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 09-13-2011|Pseudo-likelihood inference]]. (William).
* Tues 9/20. Perceptrons and margin-based learning. (William).
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* Thus 9/15. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 09-15-2011|Understanding "conditional" models]]. (Noah).
* Thus 9/22. Ranking perceptrons and margin-based learning. (William).
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* Mon 9/19. '''Join or recruit a 2-3 person project team''' and add that information to your project proposal.
* Tues 9/27. Generalizing SVM to structures. (Noah)
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* Tues 9/20. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 09-20-2011|Perceptrons and margin-based learning]]. (William).
* Thus 9/29. Dynamic programming techniques. (Noah; note this is Rosh Hashanah)
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* Thus 9/22. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 09-22-2011|Ranking perceptrons and margin-based learning]]. (William).
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* Mon 9/26. '''Identify the baseline method(s) and dataset you will use in your project.'''
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* Tues 9/27. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 09-27-2011|Stacking, Searn, and related "meta-learning" techniques]]. (William).
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* Thus 9/29. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 09-29-2011|Generalizing SVM to structures]]. (Noah; note: this is Rosh Hashanah)
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* Fri 9/30. '''First set of four wiki assignments due.'''  Brendan has posted some [[Wiki_writeup_assignments_for_10-710_in_Fall_2011|detailed guidelines.]]  Some more information on this was given in beginning of the [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/10-710/09-01-hmms.ppt lecture on Sept 1].
  
 
== October ==
 
== October ==
  
* Tues 10/4. Stacking, Searn, and related "meta-learning" techniques. (William).
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* Tues 10/4. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 10-04-2011|Making structured predictions with dynamic programming]] (Noah).
* Thus 10/6. Test-time optimization with ILP and other methods (Noah).
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* Thus 10/6. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 10-06-2011|Inference with ILP and other methods]] (Noah).
* Tues 10/11. PCFGs and parsing (Noah).
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* Thus 10/6. '''Complete your project proposal''' by explaining what your "big idea" will be.
* Thus 10/13. Spanning trees and dependency parsing. (Noah).
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* Tues 10/11. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 10-11-2011|Natural language parsing with CFGs]] (Noah).
* Tues 10/18. Kernels for structured inputs. (William).
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* Thus 10/13. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 10-13-2011|Dependency parsing]]. (Noah).
* Thus 10/20. Kernels for structured outputs. (Noah).
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* Tues 10/18. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 10-18-2011|EM and Learning edit distances 1]]. (William).
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* Thus 10/20. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 10-20-2011|EM and Learning edit distances 2]]. (William).
 
* Tues 10/25. '''Mid-term project reports''' - short presentations of task, dataset, and baseline.
 
* Tues 10/25. '''Mid-term project reports''' - short presentations of task, dataset, and baseline.
* Thus 10/27. Learning edit distances. (William).
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* Thus 10/27. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 10-27-2011|Weighted FSTs]]. (Noah).
  
 
== November ==
 
== November ==
  
* Tues 11/1. Weighted FSTs. (Noah).
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* Tues 11/1. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 11-01-2011|Unsupervised grammar induction]]. (Noah).
* Thus 11/3. Non-monotonic alignment for MT.(Noah).
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* Wed 11/2. '''Deadline for October round of writeups'''.
* Tues 11/8. EM for sequences. (William).
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* Thus 11/3. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 11-03-2011|Alignment and translation]] (guest lecture by Kevin Gimpel).
* Thus 11/10. EM for trees. (Noah).
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* Tues 11/8. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 11-8-2011|Kernels for structured inputs]]. (William).
* Tues 11/15. Discriminative latent-variable models. (Noah).
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* Thus 11/10.   [[Class Meeting for 10-710 11-10-2011|Kernels for structured outputs]]. (Noah).
* Thus 11/17. Regularizers derived from unannotated data. (William).
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* Tues 11/15. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 11-15-2011|Discriminative latent-variable models]]. (Noah).
* Tues 11/22. Posterior regularization and other EM variants. (Noah).
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* Thus 11/17. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 11-17-2011|Information extraction]] (guest lecture by Brendan O'Connor).
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* Tues 11/22. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 11-22-2011|Regularizers derived from unannotated data]]. (William).
 
* Thus 11/24 -- ''Thanksgiving, no class''
 
* Thus 11/24 -- ''Thanksgiving, no class''
* Tues 11/29. Classification on graphs (William).
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* Tues 11/29. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 11-29-2011|Classification on graphs]] (guest lecture by Frank Lin, Ni Lao)
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* 11/30. '''Deadline for November round of writeups.'''
  
 
== December ==
 
== December ==
  
* Thus 12/1. Bayesian grammars (Noah).
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* Thus 12/1. [[Class Meeting for 10-710 12-01-2011|Bayesian approaches to structured models]]. (Noah).
 
* Tues 12/6. Project presentations 1
 
* Tues 12/6. Project presentations 1
 
* Thus 12/8. Project presentations 2.
 
* Thus 12/8. Project presentations 2.
 
* Mon 12/12. '''Final projects due.'''
 
* Mon 12/12. '''Final projects due.'''

Latest revision as of 15:09, 1 December 2011

This is the syllabus for Structured Prediction 10-710 in Fall 2011. The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.

August/September

October

November

December