Week |
Theme |
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1. 31 Aug |
Why Language Technology? |
- Hans Uszkoreit
"Language Technology.
A First Overview"
- John Nerbonne
Natural Language Interfaces and
the Turing Test: In Franciska M.G. de Jong and Anton
Nijholt Natural Language Interfaces: From Laboratory
to Commercial and User Environment
1993, Twente, pp. 15-21.
- John Nerbonne
"Computer-Assisted
Language Learning and
Natural Language Processing" from R. Mitkov (ed.)
Handbook of
Computational Linguistics, OUP, 2002,670-698.
- Timo Lauttamus, John Nerbonne and Wybo Wiersma
"Detecting Syntactic Contamination in Emigrants: The English of
Finnish Australians" SKY21 2007, 273-307.
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2. 7 Sept. |
Habeas Corpus! |
- Joan Bresnan "Is Syntactic
Knowledge Probabilistic? Experiments with the English
Dative Alternation" from S. Featherston & W. Sternefeld
(eds.) Roots. Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base
Walter de Gruyter: Berlin. 2007. 75-96.
- Steve Abney "Statistical Methods and
Linguistics" from J. Klavans & and P. Resnik (eds.),
The Balancing Act MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 1995. 1-26.
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3. 14 Sept. |
Discourse |
- Barbara Grosz and Candace Sidner
"Attention, Intentions and the Structure of Discourse"
Computational Linguistics 12, 1986, 175-204.
- Caroline Sporleder and Alex Lascarides
"Exploiting Linguistic
Cues to Classify Rhetorical Relations" In: Recent
Advances in Natural Language Processing IV: Selected Papers
from RANLP 2005, 2007, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 157-164.
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4. 21 Sept. |
Simulating Lg. Acquistion |
- John Goldsmith "Segmentation and
Morphology" to appear in Alex Clark, Chris Fox, and Shalom
Lappin
(eds.) Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
Processing Handbook
Blackwell: London. From Goldsmith's web site on 16 Sept. 2009:
http://hum.uchicago.edu/~jagoldsm/Papers/segmentation.pdf
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5. 28 Sept. |
Machine Translation |
- Kevin Knight
Notes for a Statistical Machine Translation Tutorial,
Johns Hopkins Summer School, 1999.
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Information Extraction |
- John Kizito et al. Computational
Linguistics and History of Science Submitted (9/2008) to Liborio
Dibattista (ed.)
Storia della Scienza e Linguistica Computationale
(History of Science and Computational Linguistics)
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6. 5 Oct. |
Linguistic Variation |
- John Nerbonne Data-Driven
Dialectology Language and
Linguistics Compass 3(1), 2009, 175-198.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818x2008.00114.x
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Generation |
- Martin Kay "Chart Generation" In:
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics. 1996. 200-204.
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P96-1027, DOI 10.3115/981863.981890
- John Carroll and Stephan Oepen
"High-Efficiency Realization for a Wide-Coverage Unification
Grammar" In:
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. 3651, 2005.
Springer: Berlin. 165-176.
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7. Thurs.! Oct. 8 |
Exam Preparation |
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See Nestor site. |
Dr. Jennifer Spenader normally teaches this course and kindly made
her materials available. About two-thirds of the materials on corpora
were developed by Jennifer and all of the materials on discourse.