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Natural Language Processing

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• Jan 27
  Introduction.
  Herb Clark, Using Language, Chapter 1.
  Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing, Chapter 1.
  Matthew Stone, Conversational processes and communicative intentions in human-human and human-computer dialogue
  Slides. Further reading:
  James Allen
  Barbara Grosz
  Candace Sidner
  Johanna Moore
  
  
• Feb 3
  Utterances.
  Herb Clark, Using Language, Chapter 2.
  Justine Cassell. Embodied Conversation: Integrating face and gesture into automatic spoken dialogue systems. In Luperfoy ed., Spoken Dialogue Systems
  Slides. Further reading:
  Elisabeth Andre
  Justine Cassell
  Julia Hirschberg
  Catherine Pelachaud
  
  
• Feb 10
  Language and the world.
  Matthew Stone, Knowledge representation for language engineering.
  Slides. Further reading:
  Johan Bos
  Martha Palmer
  James Pustejovsky
  Lenhart Schubert
  Rich Thomason
  
  
• Feb 17
  Canceled (snow).
• Feb 24
  Coordination, reference, discourse context and discourse structure.
  Herb Clark, Using Language, Chapters 3 and 4.
  Andrew Kehler. Discourse. Chapter 18 of Jurafsky and Martin Speech and Language Processing.
  Slides. Further reading:
  Andy Kehler
  Alex Lascarides
  Mark Steedman
  Bonnie Webber
  
  
• Mar 3
  Discourse context and context change.
  Herb Clark, Using Language, Chapters 5, 7 and 8.
  Dan Jurafsky and James Martin. Speech and Language Processing Chapter 19.
  Slides.
  Program from class. Further reading:
  Harry Bunt
  Jonathan Ginzburg
  David Traum
  
  
• Mar 10
  Computational approaches to syntactic representation.
  Dan Jurafsky and James Martin. Speech and Language Processing Chapters 9 and 11.
  Matthew Stone. Lexicalized grammar 101..
  Slides. Further reading:
  Anne Abeille
  Bob Frank
  Aravind Joshi
  Edward Stabler
  
  
• Mar 17
  Spring break.
  
• Mar 24
  Syntactic analysis, incremental structure-building and incremental interpretation.
  Slides. Further reading:
  Eugene Charniak
  Michael Collins
  Mark Johnson
  Christopher Manning
  
  
• Mar 31
  Syntax and semantics in natural language generation.
  Matthew Stone, Christine Doran, Bonnie Webber, Tonia Bleam and Martha Palmer. Microplanning with communicative intentions: The SPUD system.
  Slides. Further reading:
  Kees van Deemter
  Emiel Krahmer
  
  
• Apr 7
  Canceled (snow!).
• Apr 14
  Inducing NL resources from examples. Further reading:
  John Chen
  Marilyn Walker
  Fei Xia