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COURSE
INFORMATION
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Instructors |
Dan Jurafsky, jurafsky@stanford.edu Mari Ostendorf, mo at ee dot washington dot edu |
Where & When | Tuesday and Fridays 3:30-5:15, Koelbel 300 (the Business School building) |
Office Hours | Tuesdays 1:30-2:30 IBS Cubicle 8 |
Discussion Forum | http://www.piazza.com/class#7800005 |
TA | Jinho Choi (jdchoi77@gmail.com), Hellems B2, Monday and Friday 11-12 |
Description | Computational methods for extracting social and conversational meaning, mainly from conversational speech but also from text. Topics will include automatic determination of emotions (angry, annoyed, happy), personality (extrovert, introvert), medical states (depression, intoxication), style (flirtatious, polite, funny), register (formality, audience), intention (deception), positioning, as well as the role of accommodation. Focus on extraction of cues from speech and text, with special attention to prosodic, acoustic, and repair/disfluency structure. Prerequisite: Familiarity with Praat, basic ability in programming (at least one or two college-level courses) using Perl, Python, Java, or Matlab |
Required Work |
Readings: To be read before the class period in which they will be discussed. Homeworks (80%): 4 homeworks. Homework is due at 9:30am on the day it is due. (Homework Collaboration Policy: You may talk to anybody you want about the assignments and bounce ideas off each other. But you must write the actual homeworks and programs yourself) Class Participation (20%) |
SCHEDULE
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Date
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HW
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Lec
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Topic and Readings |
1 |
July 8 |
Lec 1 slides |
Sentiment Lexicons and Sentiment Classification
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2 |
July 12 |
HW 1 due | Lec 2 slides |
Prosody, Emotion, and Mood
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3 |
July 15 |
Lec 3 slides |
Personality and Interpersonal Stance
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4 |
July 19 |
HW 2 due | Lec 4 slides |
Accommodation
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5 |
July 22 |
Lec 5 slides |
Register and Genre
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6 |
July 26 |
HW 3 due on July 27 9:30am | Lec 6 slides |
Agreement, Citation, Propositional Attitude
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7 |
July 29 |
HW 4 is due on July 31 at 9:30am. |
Lec 7 slides Jinho's slides on HW 3 |
Dialog Acts and Sarcasm
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8 |
Aug 2 |
Lec 8 slides |
Positioning and Authority
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