Outline of Linguistics 354

Outline of Linguistics 354

Introduction (Jan 31, Feb 2)

• Topics:
• Administrative stuff
• What is a computer?
• What is natural language?

Phonetics, phonology, and voice recognition (Feb 7, 9, 14)

• Readings:
• NL&CL: Sec 2.1-2.4 (pp15-26)
• State of the Art: Sec 1.1-1.6 (pp 1-36)(optional)

• Topics:
• Phonetics, phonology, and voice recognition
• Language modeling with N-grams

Morphology and morphological analysis (Feb 16)

• Readings:
• NL&CL:Sec 2.5-2.9 (pp 27-42)
• State of the Art: Sections 3.1- 3.2 (pp 95-100)(optional)

• Topics:
• Morphology and its uses.

The lexicon (Feb 21, 23)

• Readings:
• Introduction to Wordnet: An On-line Lexical Database, (Five Papers (PS Version) or (PDF Version) pp 1-9)
• Nouns in Wordnet: A Lexical Inheritance System, (Five Papers, pp 10-25)
• English Verbs as a Semantic Net, (Five Papers, pp 40-61)
• State of the Art, Section 3.4 (pp 381-399)(optional)

• Topics:
• The lexicon and lexical databases
• Lexis, collocation and corpus studies

Grammar formalisms and parsing (Feb 28, Mar 1, 6)

• Readings:
• NL&CL:Chapters 3 and 4 (pp 43-114)
• State of the Art:Sections 3.3 to 3.4 (pp 100-105)(optional)
• State of the Art:Sections 3.6 to 3.8 (pp 111-123)(optional)

• Topics:
• Syntax, CFG-type grammars.
• Automated parsing
• Unification formalisms.

Semantics and knowledge representation (Mar 8, 13, 15)

• Readings:
• NL&CL:Chapters 5 and 6 (pp 115-166)
• State of the Art:Section 3.5 (pp 105 - 111) (optional)
• Jacobs:Integrating Language and Meaning (optional)
• Schank:Knowledge is Stories, from Tell Me a Story

• Topics:
• Semantics and knowledge representation

Discourse and dialog (Mar 20, 22)

• Readings:
• Discourse Structure, in NLU (optional)
• State of the Art: Chapter 6 (pp 199 to 214) (optional)

• Topics:
• Discourse and dialog

Mid-term (Mar 27 (review), Mar 29)

Text understanding, summarization, and retrieval (Apr 3, 5)

• Topics:
• Text Retrieval
• Natural Language Understanding

Language generation (Apr 10)

• Readings:
• NL&CL:Chapter 14
• State of the Art: Chapter 4 (pp 139 to 155) (optional)
• NLU:Defining a conversational Agent) (optional)

• Topics:
• Language Generation

Spoken output (Apr 12)

• Readings:
• State of the Art: Chapter 5 (pp 165 to 187) (optional)

• Topics:
• Overview of spoken output (part of language generation, above)

Vacation (Apr 17-21)

Machine translation and multiple languages (Apr 24, 26)

• Readings:
• Basic strategies,in Mach.Trans. (pp 69-80)
• Analysis, in Mach.Trans. (pp 81-97)
• Problems of transfer and interlingua, in Mach.Trans. (pp 99-133)
• Practical Use in Mach.Trans. (pp 147 to 159)
• State of the Art: Chapter 8 (pp 245 to 276) (optional)

• Topics:
• Machine translation
• Machine translation examples

Other Applications and Issues (May 1, 3)

• Topics:
• Markup Languages
• Chatterbots

Mid-term (May 8 (review), May 10)

Oral presentations (May 15, 17, 19(final session 16:00-18:40))