Final Exercise is On-Line

With a delay of about 24 hours, we have just posted the second (and final) part of our third obligatory exercise, which has its submission date a little less than two weeks from today (November 16).  The first part of this problem set builds on the theory that was the topic of the most recent lecture, while remaining theoretical background for the ¡®middle¡¯ part of this problem set will be lectured next week.

This exercise also offers an optional third part, which calls for combination of our chart parser implementation with the HMM tagger and implementation of additional optimizations; submissions to this optional part will be rewarded with up to ten bonus points¡ªso it should really be possible for everyone who starts work on this assignment about now to qualify for the exam, if you just work hard enough on it.  Besides offering bonus points, working on the optional final part will also be fun and great programming practice.