Syllabus

• Week 1: Introduction
• Readings: Allen, ch. 1
• M
• The course
• The "field"
• W
• A very basic question
• The big picture
• Kinds of linguistic knowledge; also Allen, ch.2 (for non-linguists)
• F
• Some specific tasks and why they're hard
• Some dimensions along which approaches vary
• Week 2: Speech; Phonology, Morphology: A Symbolic Approach
• Readings: Allen: Appendix C
; Antworth
• M
• Symbolic vs. connectionist/statistical approaches
• W
• Speech
• Finite-state automata
• Phonology and morphology
• F
• Two-level phonology/morphology 1
• Week 3: Phonology, Morphology: Connectionist Approaches
• Readings: Gasser
• M
• Two-level phonology/morphology 2
• Introduction to connectionist models
• W
• More on connectionist models
• Acquisition of morphology
• F
• Reduplication: A challenge to morphology models
• Week 4: Syntax
• Readings: Allen, ch. 3
• M
• Project ideas
• Syntax and semantics 1
• W
• Grammars 1
• Grammars 2
• F
• Problems with CFGs
• Introduction to information-based grammars
• Week 5: Syntax
• Readings: Allen, ch. 4
• M
[First project summary due]
• Context-free grammars with complex categories
• HPSG grammars (1)
• W
• HPSG grammars (2)
• Parsing with a CFG/RTN
• F
• Some parsing issues
• Week 6: Syntax
• Readings: Allen, ch. 5.1-3
• M
• Parsing with HPSG (1)
• W
• Unification
• F
• Parsing with HPSG (2)
• Week 7: Syntax
• Readings:
• M
• Chart parsing
• W
• Review of parsing
• F
• Ambiguity
• Week 8: Syntax; Semantics
• Exam 1, some answers (due midnight Wed/Thur)
• Readings: Allen, ch. 8; Regier
• M
• Some approaches to sentence generation
• W
• Lexical semantics
• F
• Grounding word meaning
• Week 9: Semantics
• Readings: Allen, ch. 9, 10
• M
• Learning word meaning
• Regier (Rutvik)
• W
• Word-sense disambiguation
• F
• Some semantic issues
• Week 10: Syntax and Semantics -- Other Approaches
• Readings: Allen, ch. 11, Landauer and Dumais
• M
• Some semantic issues
• Landauer and Dumais (Moreena)
• W
• Compositionality
• F
• Semantic grammars, phrasal parsers
• Connectionist structure 1
• Week 11: Syntax and Semantics -- Other Approaches
• Readings: Allen, ch. 7; Elman, Pollack
• M
[ Second project summary due]
• Pollack (Mark)
• W
• Connectionist structure 2
• Elman (Adam)
• F
• Statistical approaches to syntax
• Week 12: Machine Translation, Pragmatics
• Readings: Allen, ch. 13, Hutchins and Somer
• M
• Statistical approaches to syntax (cont.)
• W
• Machine translation: Hutchins & Somer (Harry)
• F
• Machine translation (cont.)
• Pragmatics (overview)
• Week 13: Pragmatics
• Readings: Allen, ch. 12, 14, 15
• M
• Using world knowledge
• Discourse structure
• W, F
[Thanksgiving break: no class]
• Week 14: Pragmatics
• Readings: Allen, ch. 16, 17; St. John
• M
• Speech acts 1
• Speech acts 2
• W
• Script-based story understanding
• Connectionist story "understanding": St. John (Jun)
• F
[Mike out of town: no class]
• Week 15: Language Acquisition Revisited, etc.
• Readings:
• M
• Language acquisition
• W
• Comparison/analogy
• Project talk (Miranda)
• Th
• Exam 2
• F
[Projects due]
• Parting thoughts
• Project talks (Nathan, Sarah)
• Week 16
• Tu (23:59)
[Exam 2 due]

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