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Date Topic Readings/Videos/In-class exercises (=optional)
Jan 06 Course introduction
Jan 08 ACL 2013 Tutorial on Decipherment by Kevin Knight
Jan 13 ACL 2013 Tutorial on Decipherment by Kevin Knight
Jan 15 CS Distinguished Lecture series
Jan 20 Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems
Jan 22 Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems
Jan 27 Language models and decipherment
Jan 29 The EM algorithm
Feb 03 The EM algorithm
Feb 05 Homework 1
Feb 17 Dynamic programming for EM; Unsupervised learning with features
Feb 19 CS Distinguished Lecture series
Feb 24 Non-parameteric Bayesian inference
Mar 03 Non-parameteric Bayesian inference
Mar 03 Bayesian decipherment
  • Bardi (Catherine Sheard)
Mar 10 EM and decipherment
Mar 12 Search and decipherment Presentation by Karol
Mar 17 Search and decipherment
Mar 19 Bayesian decipherment and Ugaritic
Mar 24 Homophonic ciphers Presentation by Ramtin
Mar 26 No class: Distinguished Lecture
Mar 31 Decipherment and Machine Translation Presentation by Mehdi+Zhelun
Apr 02 Cipher Type Detection Presentation by Hassan+Jasneet
Apr 07 Beam search for decipherment Presentation by Anahita+Golnar
Apr 09 Unsupervised multilingual text to speech
Apr 14 Final project presentations