LING 506

Schedule

Week	Readings & Videos, Quizzes, Assignments, Logs	Complete prior to	Totals (approximate)
Week 1	Video playlist (25 minutes) Syllabus (6 pages) Academic Integrity Overview (8 pages) Statement (1 pages) Infractions (2 pages) Procedures (3 pages) Sanctions (1 pages) Reporting (1 pages) Senate (1 pages) Quiz 0a	Fri Aug 28 11:59 PM	📖 23 pages 📺 25 minutes
Week 2	Quiz 0b	Tue Sep 01 11:59 PM
Week 2	NMT Ch 1: The Translation Problem (p. 3-18) NMT Ch 2: Uses of Machine Translation (p. 19-28) Milestones in MT: Part 1 (2 pages) Milestones in MT: Part 2 (2 pages) ⓘ Weaver's Translation Memo (12 pages) NMT Ch 3: History (p. 29-40) NMT Ch 4: Evaluation (p. 41-64) Video playlist (226 minutes) Quiz 1 Quiz 2	Fri Sep 04 11:59 PM	📖 66 pages 📺 226 minutes ℹ️ 📖 12 pages
Week 3	Homework 1	Mon Sep 07 11:59 PM
Week 3	SMT Ch 3: Probability Theory (p. 63-76) SMT Ch 4: Word-Based Models (p. 81-124) ⓘ SMT Tutorial Workbook (p. 1-36) Basics in Language and Probability (59 minutes) IBM Model 1 and the EM algorithm (56 minutes)	Fri Sep 11 11:59 PM	📖 58 pages 📺 115 minutes ℹ️ 📖 36 pages
Week 4	SMT Ch 2: Words, Sentences, Corpora (p. 33-62) NMT Ch 12: Revisiting Words (p. 213-238)	Fri Sep 18 11:59 PM	📖 56 pages
Week 4	Project Proposal	Fri Sep 18 11:59 PM
Week 5	SMT Ch 5: Phrase-Based Models (p. 127-152) Video: Phrase-Based Models (47 minutes) SMT Ch 6: Decoding (p. 155-178) Video: Decoding (65 minutes) Decoding demo Quiz 3 Quiz 4 Quiz 5	Fri Sep 25 11:59 PM	📖 50 pages 📺 112 minutes
Week 5	Homework 2	Fri Sep 25 11:59 PM
Week 6	SMT Ch 7: Language Models (p. 181-214) Video: Language Models (69 minutes) Quiz 6	Fri Oct 02 11:59 PM	📖 34 pages 📺 69 minutes
Week 6	Project Literature Review	Fri Oct 02 11:59 PM
Week 7	NMT Ch 5: Neural Networks (p. 67-87) Video: Introduction to Neural Networks (55 minutes) NMT Ch 6: Computation Graphs (p. 89-101) Video: Computation Graphs (41 minutes) NMT Ch 7: Neural Language Models (p. 103-124) Video: Neural Language Models (36 minutes)	Fri Oct 09 11:59 PM	📖 55 pages 📺 132 minutes
Week 8	NMT Ch 8: Neural Translation Models (p. 125-141) Video: Neural Translation Models (39 minutes)	Fri Oct 16 11:59 PM	📖 17 pages 📺 39 minutes
Week 9	NMT Ch 9: Decoding (p. 143-168) Video: Neural Translation Model Decoding (47 minutes)	Fri Oct 23 11:59 PM	📖 26 pages 📺 47 minutes
Week 10	Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling (53 pages) Video: Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling (JSALT opening video) (30 minutes) Video: Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling (JSALT closing video) (120 minutes)	Fri Oct 30 11:59 PM	📖 53 pages 📺 150 minutes
Week 10	Homework 3 Project Checkpoint 1	Fri Oct 30 11:59 PM
Week 11	NMT Ch 10: Machine Learning Tricks (p. 171-191) Video: Machine Learning Tricks (78 minutes)	Fri Nov 06 11:59 PM	📖 21 pages 📺 78 minutes
Week 12	NMT Ch 11: Alternate Architectures (p. 193-212) Video: Alternative Architectures (66 minutes)	Fri Nov 13 11:59 PM	📖 20 pages 📺 66 minutes
Week 12	Project Checkpoint 2	Fri Nov 13 11:59 PM
Week 13	5th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT20)	Fri Nov 20 11:59 PM
Week 13	ⓘ Attention Is All You Need (15 pages) The Annotated Transformer (34 pages) ⓘ The Illustrated Transformer (22 pages)	Fri Nov 20 11:59 PM	📖 34 pages ℹ️ 📖 37 pages
Week 14	Thanksgiving Break	Fri Nov 27 11:59 PM
Week 15	SMT Ch 11: Tree-Based Models (p. 331-369) ⓘ NMT Ch 15: Linguistic Structure (p. 281-292) Video: Words and Morphology (59 minutes) Video: Syntax and Semantics (65 minutes)	Fri Dec 04 11:59 PM	📖 39 pages 📺 124 minutes ℹ️ 📖 11 pages
Week 15	Homework 5	Fri Dec 04 11:59 PM
Week 16	Project Final Report Optional Homework 4	Fri Dec 11 11:59 PM

This course entails approximately 552 total pages of required readings and 19 total hours of videos for the semester.