Mon 10am Newman/G16 | Fri 10am AlanTuring/G205 | |
1. Introduction (Sept 24, 28) | Introduction, explanation of syllabus What makes language hard for computers? | Applications: overview |
2. Phonetics (Oct 1, 5) | Speech recognition | Speech synthesis |
3. Writing (Oct 8, 12) | Character sets, Unicode, input methods | Word processing, spell checkers, grammar checkers |
4. Words (Oct 15, 19) | Dictionaries, Thesauri | WordNet |
5. Morphology (Oct 22, 23) | Morphology | Tagging * |
READING WEEK | ||
6. Syntax (Nov 5, 9) | Parsing I | Parsing II |
7. Syntax,Semantics (Nov 12, 16) | Parsing III | Dialogue understanding |
8. Pragmatics,Branches (Nov 19, 23) | Speech acts, Cooperative responses | Psycholinguistics: language and disability |
9. Translation (Nov 26, 27**) | Machine Translation I | cancelled ** | 10. Translation (Dec 3, 7) | Machine Translation II | Machine Translation III |
11. Applied linguistics and IR (Dec 10, 14) | Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) | Information retrieval; Summarization |
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