/ 2009-11-18T23:54:05-06:00 / /lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-11-18T23:48:28-06:00 Jason Baldridge /courses/2009/fall/language_and_computers/links?rev=1258609708&do=diff Overview Day * Look at the L&C course from Spring 2009 to see what was covered then and grab some of the resources. * Search for HAL 9000 on YouTube to look at some clips from 2001: A Space Odyssey. * Check out the webpage for the course on lego robots at Saarland University. See videos of the lego robot bartender we saw in class. * Check out the CoSy webpage, which is the project that works on the mobile robot we saw a couple of videos of in class. * See the How to say NO to a robot … text/html 2009-11-18T22:42:44-06:00 Jason Baldridge /courses/2009/fall/language_and_computers/schedule?rev=1258605764&do=diff Schedule as of “Last modified” date at bottom. Subject to change. Slides will be posted throughout the semester, but feel free to get look at the schedule from last year's course to see previous slides. Assignments are due by class time (9:30am) on their due date. text/html 2009-11-18T22:06:45-06:00 Jason Baldridge /people/faculty?rev=1258603605&do=diff [Image of Jason Baldridge] Jason Baldridge (Linguistics) Computational Linguistics, Semi-supervised Machine Learning, Parsing, Categorial Grammar, Discourse Structure. email | webpage Colin Bannard (Linguistics) Psycholinguistics, Computational modeling for child language acquisition email | webpage text/html 2009-11-18T21:59:31-06:00 Jason Baldridge /people/students?rev=1258603171&do=diff Postdoctoral Fellows [Rohit J. Kate] Rohit J. Kate (Computer Sciences) Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning email | webpage Graduate Students [Josh Brewster] Josh Brewster (Linguistics) Computational Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Machine Translation. email text/html 2009-11-18T11:40:44-06:00 Katrin Erk /courses/2009/fall/introduction_to_computational_linguistics/schedule?rev=1258566044&do=diff Schedule as of “Last modified” date at bottom. Subject to change. Assignments are due by class time (3:30pm) on their due date. Week Date Topic Materials Reading Assignments 1 Aug 27 Introduction 2 Sep 1 Basics in Python: why Python, basic data types, lists&loops J&M ch.1, How to think like a computer scientist, ch.1 and ch.2. If you need more material, here's a worksheet on Python basics and a worksheet on lists and loops. If you have trouble downloading the lists&loops… text/html 2009-11-17T20:01:59-06:00 Leif Johnson /nll/proposed?rev=1258509719&do=diff Current Nivre, J. Non-Projective Dependency Parsing in Expected Linear Time. ACL 2009 <http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P09/P09-1040.pdf> proposed by Leif, Nov 2009 Levy, R., Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence processing with particle filters. NIPS 2009 <http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/papers/sentencepf1.pdf> proposed by Leif, Oct 2009 text/html 2009-11-17T20:01:50-06:00 Leif Johnson /nll?rev=1258509710&do=diff We explore and discuss papers in the area of natural language acquisition and learning. Meetings are held once every two weeks, on Monday, starting at 12 noon, in PAR 10. Our next scheduled meeting will be on Monday, 23 November, at 12 noon in PAR 10, where we will discuss: text/html 2009-11-17T19:58:53-06:00 Leif Johnson /nll/discussed?rev=1258509533&do=diff This Year: 2009 Hinrich Schuetze and Michael Walsh, A graph-theoretic model of lexical syntactic acquisition. Proceedings of EMNLP 2008 <http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D08/D08-1096.pdf> Proposed by Elias, Jan 2009 Discussed on Jan 30, 2009 text/html 2009-11-17T14:42:02-06:00 Jason Baldridge /courses/2009/fall/analyzing_linguistic_data/assignments/student_datasets?rev=1258490522&do=diff text/html 2009-11-17T11:21:15-06:00 Jason Baldridge /courses/2009/fall/language_and_computers/assignments/machine_translation?rev=1258478475&do=diff Due: by 3pm on Wednesday, November 25. You can submit your homework in class on Tuesday, or drop it through the mail slot in Calhoun 510 (Jason's office). ---------- Problem 1 (20 points) Go to Google Translate, a site which allows you to type in text and translate it into another language. By copying and pasting you can also backtranslate, i.e., translate back into the original language. To answer the following questions, you will have to come up with your own examples to defend your answe… text/html 2009-11-17T09:17:49-06:00 Jason Baldridge /courses/2009/fall/language_and_computers/assignments?rev=1258471069&do=diff Homework 1: Text and speech encoding, due September 15. Homework 2: Classification and QA, due September 24. Homework 3: Dialogue Systems and Writers_Aids, due October 9, by 10am (put your homework in Elias Ponvert's mailbox in Calhoun 501). Homework 4: Grammars and Cryptography, due November 5. text/html 2009-11-12T21:30:21-06:00 Jason Baldridge /texit/events?rev=1258083021&do=diff 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure We are holding a two day workshop in honor of Professor Carlota S. Smith. It will take place on November 14 and 15, 2009 in conjunction with the 2009 Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society. The program for the workshop includes participation by the following speakers: text/html 2009-11-12T13:24:57-06:00 Jason Baldridge /courses/2009/fall/analyzing_linguistic_data/schedule?rev=1258053897&do=diff Schedule as of “Last modified” date at bottom. Subject to change. Assignments are due by class time (12:30pm) on their due date. Week Date Topic Materials Reading Assignments 1 Aug 27 Introduction 2 Sep 1 Getting started with R R worksheet. Additional problems for Sep 1 ALD ch. 1 Recommended: SE ch.1 Sep 3 Next steps in R: data frames and loops Recommended: SE ch.2, SE pp 296-300 3 Sep 8 Graphical data exploration: one variable Problems for Sep 8 ALD ch… text/html 2009-11-12T12:13:37-06:00 Katrin Erk /people/katrin_erk/students?rev=1258049617&do=diff PhD supervisees * Nick Gaylord * Taesun Moon Research assistants * Dan Garrette - Isogram * Jessika Roesner - Isogram Past students Ph.D. students: * Alexis Palmer, 2009. Thesis: Semi-automated annotation and active learning for language documentation. Now at the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics at Saarland University. text/html 2009-11-10T08:27:45-06:00 Jason Baldridge /courses/2009/fall/language_and_computers/assignments/forensic_linguistics?rev=1257863265&do=diff Due: Tuesday, November 17. ---------- Problem 1 (30 points) Two paragraphs are given below, one for each of two authors, John Beadle and John Haldane, from texts about traveling in North America. Your job is to determine who wrote the questioned paragraph based on properties of the known paragraph, providing explicit justification for your choices, similarly to what we did in class and which you can see in the first few pages of the Forensic Linguistics slides. text/html 2009-11-09T14:45:20-06:00 Katrin Erk /courses/2009/fall/analyzing_linguistic_data/assignments/clustering?rev=1257799520&do=diff Due: November 19, 2009 In this homework, you'll work with the clustering and classification methods covered in Chapter 5 of Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics Using R. Please start by downloading the file [''lastname_firstname_hw4.R''] and rename it so that it has your last and first names as appropriate (e.g., baldridge_jason_hw4.R). You will edit this file, putting the R code you use to complete the assignment and write down comments as requested in the proble… text/html 2009-11-06T14:44:32-06:00 Jason Baldridge /courses/2009/fall/analyzing_linguistic_data/assignments?rev=1257540272&do=diff Homework 1, due September 22. Homework 2, due October 6. Homework 3, due November 5. Homework 4, due November 19. text/html 2009-11-06T14:42:46-06:00 Jason Baldridge /courses/2009/fall/analyzing_linguistic_data/assignments/clustering_5436?rev=1257540166&do=diff Due: November 19, 2009 In this homework, you'll work with the clustering and classification methods covered in Chapter 5 of Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics Using R. Please start by downloading the file [''lastname_firstname_hw4.R''] and rename it so that it has your last and first names as appropriate (e.g., baldridge_jason_hw4.R). You will edit this file, putting the R code you use to complete the assignment and write down comments as requested in the proble… text/html 2009-11-06T13:39:13-06:00 Jason Baldridge /courses/2009/fall/analyzing_linguistic_data/assignments/wyatt_dataset_description?rev=1257536353&do=diff Description of the Wyatt authorship dataset The dataset wyatt.txt contains information on poems authored by Thomas Wyatt and some of his contemporaries. Some are of unknown authorship. Each row contains information on a single poem. The first 9 columns of the dataset contain metadata. Among them are: text/html 2009-11-05T20:34:48-06:00 Katrin Erk /courses/2009/fall/introduction_to_computational_linguistics/assignments?rev=1257474888&do=diff Assignments for credit Assignment 1 Please download [homework assignment one]. You can submit your written solution in class, or you can submit electronically on Blackboard. This homework is due on September 17. Assignment 2 Please download [homework assignment two]. You can submit your answers electronically on Blackboard.