Problem Sets

General

• All the assignments will involve reading papers; most will involve programming; some will be done in groups.
• In addition to the results you will need to turn in a short report describing what you did, what were the difficulties and what were your conclusions. More details on the reports will come with the assignments.
• Feel free to send me e-mail or come to ask questions.
• Feel free to talk to other members of the class in doing the homework.
• Please, no hand written solutions.

1. Students Survey(09/06; in class)

2. Instructions and due dates for the Critical Reading Essays. Please send me Email with your essay.
3. Experimental Assignment #1: Topic: Lexical Paraphrasing: A Statistical Study.
   
4. Experimental Assignment #2: Topic (tentative): Identification and Entailment of temporal Phrases.

5. Experimental Assignment #3: Topic: Textual Entailment - Final Project.