NLP Tuesday Check-In: Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Name: __________________________________________________

Checking In

How well are you attending to your own wellness this week?

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How much time did you spend on CS159 outside of class this week? ____________________________________


Shared Reading

The following key terms were important to this week’s reading:

part of speech         degree                  wh-pronoun
closed class           manner                  auxiliary verb
open class             temporal adverb         copula
function word          preposition             modal verb
noun                   particle                interjection
proper noun            phrasal verb            POS tagging
common noun            determiner              ambiguous / disambiguation
count noun             article                 accuracy
mass noun              conjunction             sequence model
verb                   complementizer          Markov chain
adjective              pronoun                 Markov assumption
adverb                 personal pronoun        Hidden Markov Model
locative               possessive pronoun      decoding
Viterbi algorithm      beam search             unknown words
  1. Would you expect POS tagging to be easier on closed-class or open-class categories? Why?




  1. What would the most frequent class baseline for POS tagging be?




  1. What is “hidden” in a Hidden Markov Model?








Optional Reading

Which reading topic did you choose?




Put notes here on your group’s discussion























Reflection

How prepared were you for today’s class?

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What would you like me to know about how your groups’ discussions went?