Instructor
Teaching Assistants
Lecture Hours
- 4pm~5:20pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays
Lecture Room
Textbooks
Primary Textbook
- Patrick Blackburn and Johan Bos, Representation and Inference for Natural Language: A First Course in Computational Semantics, CSLI Studies in Computational Linguistics, CSLI Publications, 2005. [BB]
Secondary Textbook
- Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, and Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, College Publications, King¡¯s College, 2006. [BBS]
Others
- Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper, Natural Language Processing with Python, O¡¯Reilly, 2009.
- Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, 2nd edition, Pearson:Prentice Hall, 2009.
Evaluation
- Midterm exam: 25%
- Final exam: 25%
- Attendance: 20%
- Homework, Class Participation: 30%
Schedule (tentative)
Week | 1: | [BB] Introduction |
Week | 2: | [BBS] Prolog |
Week | 3: | [BBS] Prolog |
Week | 4: | [BB] First Order Logic |
Week | 5: | [BB] First Order Logic; Lambda Calculus |
Week | 6: | [BB] Lambda Calculus |
Week | 7: | Midterm Exam (10/20) |
Week | 8: | [BB] Underspecified Representations |
Week | 9: | [BB] Underspecified Representations |
Week | 10: | [BB] Propositional Inference |
Week | 11: | [BB] Propositional Inference |
Week | 12: | [BB] First Order Inference |
Week | 13: | [BB] First Order Inference |
Week | 14: | [BB] Putting It All Together |
Week | 15: | Final Exam (12/20) |
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