H02B6A Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence


H02B6A Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence

Schedule 2012-2013

The course consists of 13 lectures and 6 exercise sessions. It is taught in the first semester.

Lectures

Thursday10.35-12.05 Dekenstraat 2 VHI 02.41

Exercise Sessions

October 10 16.30-18.30Celestijnenlaan 200 S 00.03
October 24 16.00-18.00Celestijnenlaan 200 E 01.212
November 7 16.30-18.30Celestijnenlaan 200 S 00.03
November 21 16.30-18.30Celestijnenlaan 200 S 00.03
December 5 16.30-18.30Celestijnenlaan 200 S 00.03
December 19 16.30-18.30Celestijnenlaan 200 S 00.03

Course Material

Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow and Emily M. Bender, Syntactic Theory. A Formal Introduction. Second Edition. CSLI Publications, Stanford University, 2003.
Copies are available at bookshop Peeters (Bondgenotenlaan 153).

Slides (.pdf format)

Lecture 1a: preface
Lecture 1b: introduction
Lecture 2: grammars
Lecture 3: typed feature structures
Lecture 4: complex feature values
Lecture 5a: semantics
Lecture 5b: semantic representations
Lecture 6: binding
Lecture 7: morphology and the lexicon
Lecture 8: grammars and psychological reality
Lecture 9: passive
Lecture 10: dummies and idioms
Lecture 11: infinitival complements
Lecture 12: auxiliaries
Lecture 13: long distance dependencies

Exercises (.txt format)

Series 1 deadline: October 10
Series 2 deadline: October 24
Series 3 deadline: November 7
Series 4 deadline: November 21
Series 5 deadline: December 5
Series 6 deadline: December 19

Bring your solutions to the exercise sessions.
In case you cannot attend the exercise session(s), you can submit electronically (.pdf or .doc format).
Here you can check whether I have received your solutions.
The solutions of the exercises are discussed collectively during the exercise sessions.

Office hour

Thursday, 15.00-17.00
Centre for Computational Linguistics
Blijde-Inkomststraat 13, 3000 Leuven
Room 01.01

Exam

Oral with written preparation
Students who have delivered the solutions of the exercises by the set deadlines have an open book exam.
For an example of a question, see the Student Information Page of the MAI web site.
Date: January 16 and 30, 9 a.m.
Location: CCL, Blijde Inkomststraat 13

Links

General information about Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Bibliography of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
On-line proceedings of HPSG conferences.
Jobs in language and speech technology. See also external links of CCL.


Last updated by Frank Van Eynde on December 21, 2012