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# Week 1: Introduction * Tu The "field" Questioning everything sacred * Th The big picture Dimensions along which approaches vary Kinds of linguistic knowledge Overview of connectionist models # Week 2: Words -- Phonology, Morphology: A Symbolic Approach * Readings: Gazdar and Mellish, ch. 2; Antworth * Tu Phonology and morphology: linguistic introduction Two-level phonology/morphology (updated 9/12) # Week 3: Words -- Phonology, Morphology: Connectionist Approaches * Readings: Gasser, Regier * Tu Two-level phonology/morphology: recognition Acquisition of morphology * Th Project ideas Reduplication: A challenge to morphology models # Week 4: Words -- Lexical Semantics: Symbolic and Connectionist Approaches * Tu Lexical semantics Mel'chuk's approach to lexical relations (Ari) Tour of LETRS (Main Library) # Week 5: Words -- Lexical Semantics: Statistical Approaches; Speech * Readings: Schütze, Allen (Appendix C) * Tu Grounding word meaning Schütze (Doug) Word-sense disambiguation * Th Speech # Week 6: Phrases and Sentences -- Context-Free Grammars, Augmented Grammars * Reading: Gazdar and Mellish, ch. 4 * Tu Syntax and semantics 1 * Th Grammars 1 # Week 7: Phrases and Sentences -- Syntax and Semantics, Compositionality * Tu Grammars 2 More problems with simple context-free grammars (Yes, this is an old slide from C564.) Introduction to information-based grammars * Th What HPSG grammars look like (1) # Week 8: Phrases and Sentences -- Unification Grammars * Tu What HPSG grammars look like (2) * Th Unification revisited Parsing 1 # Week 9: Phrases and Sentences -- Connectionist Syntax and Semantics * Readings: Pollack, Elman * Tu Another HPSG example The problem of structure in connectionist nets * Th Connectionist approaches to structure Pollack (Jeff) # Week 10: Phrases and Sentences: Connectionist Structure (cont.), Parsing * Tu Elman (Andy) More on connectionist structure * Th Some parsing issues # Week 11: Phrases and Sentences -- Parsing and Generation; Spreading-Activation Approaches * Readings: Lange and Wharton * Tu Chart parsing Ambiguity * Th Some approaches to sentence generation Lange and Wharton (Jim) # Week 12: Machine Translation, Statistical Approaches Again, Discourses -- Symbolic Approaches * Readings: Hutchins and Somers, Allen (ch. 7) * Tu Localist connectionist networks Statistical approaches to syntax * Th Machine translation: Hutchins and Somers (Michael) # Week 13: Discourses -- Symbolic Approaches * Tu Machine translation (cont.) Pragmatics (overview) Speech acts 1 Speech acts 2 # Week 14: Discourses -- Symbolic and Connectionist Approaches * Reading: St. John * Tu Progress report on project due St. John (Wendy) Using world knowledge * Th Discourse structure Mélange of last-minute topics: metaphor, metonymy, humor, deception (none of which I have a good account of) # Week 15: Language Acquisition Revisited * Tu Comparison and analogy; mental spaces * Th Language acquisition Parting thoughts Final exam # Week 16 * Mo (23:59:59) Exams due (electronically) * Tu (5:00-7:00pm) Reports on projects Project reports due

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