Week

Day

Date

Topic

Reading

Assigned

Due

Points

1

Tue

9-24-2013

Intro and Review of Probability

Chapter 2

Hmwk1

10-2-13

15

1

Thu

9-26-2013

Statistical Estimation

Chapter 17.1

 

 

 

2

Tue

10-1-2013

Bayes Networks

Chapter 3

 

 

 

2

Thu

10-3-2013

Bayes Networks and Naive Bayes Classifiers

 

Hmwk2

10-14-13

11

3

Tue

10-8-2013

Markov Networks, Variable Elimination

Chapters 4, 9

 

 

 

3

Thu

10-10-2013

Junction Tree

Chapter 10

 

 

 

4

Tue

10-15-2013

Sampling

Chapter 12

Hmwk 3

10-29-13

10

4

Thu

10-17-2013

Learning

 

 

 

 

5

Tue

10-22-2013

No class

 

 

 

 

5

Thu

10-24-2013

Learning (cont.), Structure Learning

Chapter 18

 

 

 

6

Tue

10-29-2013

Expectation-Maximization

Chapter 19

Hmwk 4

11-6-13

14

6

Thu

10-31-2013

Semi-supervised Learning

 

 

 

 

7

Tue

11-5-2013

SSL and Exam review

 

 

 

 

7

Thu

11-7-2013

Mid-term Exam

 

 

 

 

8

Tue

11-12-2013

Exam Review, HMMs

 

 

 

 

8

Thu

11-14-2013

CS Everywhere

 

 

 

 

9

Tue

11-19-2013

HMMs (cont), Unsupervised Information Extraction

 

 

 

 

9

Thu

11-21-2013

Project Design meeting

 

Project

12-8-13

25

10

Tue

11-26-2013

Language Models: LSI and LDA

Gibbs for LDA

 

 

 

10

Thu

11-28-2013

No class (Thanksgiving)

 

 

 

 

11

Tue

12-3-2013

Language Models: ngrams and NNLMs

Smoothing Tutorial

and

paper

 

 

 

11

Thu

12-5-2013

Project Presentations