DCS 533 -- Computational Linguistics

Course People
Matthew Stone

Class Wednesday 11:30-2:20, Hill 254

News

• Mar 29
  For your edification: here are some notes and a program illustrating lexicalized syntax.

• Feb 18
  Comments in prolog files updated to fix error: test with understand/2 not interpret/2.

• Feb 13
  Homework three, Due Feb 20.
  Prolog file and instructions.
  Sample instance.

• Feb 7
  Herb Clark's Using Language is now on reserve in the Math library.
  The syllabus is updated to reflect how the class is actually proceeding.

Lectures, Readings, Notes

• Jan 23
  Introduction.
  Herb Clark, Using Language, Chapter 1.
  Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing, Chapter 1.
  Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos and Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!

• Jan 31
  Collaboration.
  Herb Clark, Using Language, Chapters 2.
  Matthew Stone, Conversational processes and communicative intentions in human-human and human-computer dialogue.

• Feb 6
  Coordination, reference, presupposition and common ground.
  Herb Clark, Using Language, Chapters 3 and 4.
  Andrew Kehler. Discourse: Reference resolution. Chapter 18.1 of Jurafsky and Martin Speech and Language Processing.
  

• Feb 13
  Relevance and implicature.
  Herb Clark, Using Language, Chapter 5.
  Andrew Kehler. Discourse: Text coherence and discourse structure. Chapter 18.2 and 18.3 of Jurafsky and Martin Speech and Language Processing.
  

• Feb 20
  Grounding.
  Herb Clark, Using Language, Chapters 7 and 8.
  

• Feb 27
  Ontology and events.
  Dan Jurafsky and James Martin. Speech and Language Processing Chapter 14.
  

• Mar 6
  Lexical semantics.
  Dan Jurafsky and James Martin. Speech and Language Processing Chapter 16.
  

• Mar 13
  Computational approaches to syntax.
  Dan Jurafsky and James Martin. Speech and Language Processing Chapters 9 and 11.

• Mar 27
  Computing interpretations compositionally.
  Matthew Stone, Christine Doran, Bonnie Webber, Tonia Bleam and Martha Palmer. Microplanning with communicative intentions: The SPUD system.

• Apr 3
  Language sounds and speech processing.
  Dan Jurafsky and James Martin. Speech and Language Processing Chapters 4 and 7.

• Apr 10
  Dialogue systems.
  Dan Jurafsky and James Martin. Speech and Language Processing Chapter 19.
  Justine Cassell. Embodied Conversation: Integrating face and gesture into automatic spoken dialogue systems. In Luperfoy ed., Spoken Dialogue Systems

• Apr 17
  Words, morphemes and text processing.
  Dan Jurafsky and James Martin. Speech and Language Processing Chapters 3, 5 and 6.

• Apr 24
  Information retrieval, information extraction, translation.
  Dan Jurafsky and James Martin. Speech and Language Processing Chapters 17 and 21.

• May 1
  Project presentations.

Materials