Centre for Computational Linguistics

Readings in Theoretical and Computational Linguistics

You can find the texts which we will discuss on January 6-7 under the heading Course Material: click on the title of the text, download and print.
The texts should be read before the lectures take place; it is also highly recommended that you prepare answers for the questions which you find under the heading Questions, see below.

Schedule

Monday December 9	10.30-12.30
Monday December 16	10.30-12.30 ; 14.30-16.30
Monday January 6	10.30-12.30 ; 14.30-16.30
Tuesday January 7	10.30-12.30 ; 14.30-16.30

Course Material

[1] Ivan A. Sag and Thomas Wasow, Syntactic Theory. A Formal Introduction, CSLI Publications, Stanford, 1999, chapters 10, 12 and 15.

[2] Anne Abeillé, Danièle Godard, Philip Miller and Ivan A. Sag, French bounded dependencies. In: S. Balari and L. Dini (eds), Romance in HPSG, CSLI Publications, Stanford, 1998, pp. 1-54.

[3] Frank Van Eynde, A constraint-based semantics for tenses and temporal auxiliaries. In: R. Cann, C. Grover and Ph. Miller (eds), Grammatical Interfaces in HPSG, CSLI Publications, Stanford, 2000, pp. 231-249.

[4] Evan L. Antworth, Morphological Parsing with a Unification-based Word Grammar. Paper presented at the North Texas Natural Language Processing Workshop, 1994.

Slides (pdf format)

Session 1: passive, raising, control and long-distance dependencies
Session 3: tenses and temporal auxiliaries

Questions (txt format)

Questions 1: French bounded dependencies

References