Background reading:
Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction. V.J. Cook. Blackwell 1988.
Background reading:
5 Papers on WordNet (from the Princeton team) 5papers.pdf
Lectures
Date | Lecture Notes | Number of Slides |
Topic | |
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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. |