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Computational Intelligence
Natural Language Section

Topics
  1. Universal Grammar

    Background reading:

    Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction. V.J. Cook. Blackwell 1988.

  2. WordNet Concepts

    Background reading:

    5 Papers on WordNet (from the Princeton team) 5papers.pdf

Lectures
Date Lecture Notes Number
of Slides
Topic
PDF Powerpoint
#0: January 13th lecture0.pdf lecture0.ppt 12 Course overview, background reading and structure.
#1: April 7th lecture1.pdf
louann.pdf
lecture1.ppt
louann.ppt
7 (Administrivia)
71 (LouAnn's slides)
Installing software for homework #1.
Guest speaker: LouAnn Gerken on Language Acquisition
#2: April 12th lecture2.pdf lecture2.ppt 25 The Puzzle of Language
#3: April 14th lecture3.pdf lecture3.ppt 24 Rule-based systems. The Principles-and-Parameters Framework. Language modules.
#4: April 19th lecture4.pdf lecture4.ppt 30 PAPPI. English, Dutch and Japanese examples. Using PAPPI. Homework 1
#5: April 21st lecture5.pdf lecture5.ppt 38 Poll: UG or not? Introduction to WordNet and Semantic Relations. The Frame Problem: semantic opposition.
#6: April 26th lecture6.pdf lecture6.ppt 35 Homework 1 due today. Logical Metonomy. WordNet applications. e-rater and SCIgen. Homework 2: GRE.
#7: April 28th lecture7.pdf
mpp.pdf
lecture7.ppt
mpp.ppt
23
39
Corpora and Statistics: COALS on homework 2.
Guest lecture: Massimo Piattelli Palmarini on A powerful critique of semantic networks: Jerry Fodor's atomism.
  homework1answers.pdf homework1answers.ppt 16 Answers and discussion of Questions 1 and 2 for Homework 1.


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