Schedule

Notes:

Schedule is subject to change.
Slides will be posted throughout the semester, but feel free to get look at the schedule from last semester's course to see previous slides.
Assignments are due by class time (10:00am) on their due date.
"DBM" refers to the draft book by Dickinson, Brew and Meurers.

Week	Dates	Topics	Materials	Assignments
1	1/19 1/21	Course introduction Writing systems	Course introduction slides Text encoding slides DBM, Chapter 1.
2	1/24 1/26 1/28	Writing systems Forensic linguistics	Forensic linguistics slides
3	1/31 2/2 2/4	Forensic linguistics		HW 1: Encoding Language (due 2/4)
4	2/7 2/9 2/11	Document classification	Document classification slides
5	2/14 2/16 2/18	Document classification Spelling correction
6	2/21 2/23 2/25	Spelling correction	Writer's aids slides (by Markus Dickinson) Spelling correction slides	HW2: Forensic linguistics and document classification (due 2/23)
7	2/28 3/2 3/4	Review Midterm (3/2) Cryptography
8	3/7 3/9 3/11	Cryptography	Cryptography slides	HW3: Precision/Recall and Spelling correction (due 3/11)
*	Spring Break
9	3/21 3/23 3/25	Machine translation	Machine translation slides
10	3/28 3/30 4/1	Machine translation Grammars
11	4/4 4/6 4/8	Grammars		HW4: Cryptography (due 4/6)
12	4/11 4/13 4/15	Dialogue systems	Dialogue system slides
13	4/18 4/20 4/22	Dialogue systems		HW5: Translation (due 4/20)
14	4/25 4/27 4/29	Social context	Social context slides
15	5/2 5/4 5/6	Social context Georeferencing Review		HW6: Grammars and Dialogue (due 5/4)
	5/10			Essay: Social context of language and computers (due 5/10, 11am)
Exam Week		Final Exam: Friday, May 13