LING 3802: Language and Computers, Spring 2013
Tuesday-Thursday 9:35-10:55, Derby Hall 029
Instructor: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mcdm/
Office hours: Tuesday 11:00-12:30, 3:00-4:30 or by appointment
Oxley Hall, room 201A
Schedule
Note that schedule is subject to change.Assignments are due by class time (9:35) on their due date.
DMB stands for the text book that we will use in class: Dickinson, Brew and Meurers. (2012) Language and computers.
| Week | Dates | Topics | Readings | Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 1/10 | Introduction | ||
| Week 2 | 1/15 | Encoding language | DBM ch1 | |
| 1/17 | Encoding language | |||
| Week 3 | 1/22 | Spelling correction | DBM ch2 | HW1: Encoding language |
| 1/24 | Spelling correction | |||
| Week 4 | 1/29 | Grammar | DBM ch3: 73-81 | HW1 due |
| 1/31 | Grammar | P. Norvig: spell checker | ||
| Week 5 | 2/05 | Search | DBM ch4 | HW2: grammar & spelling correction |
| 2/07 | Search | |||
| Week 6 | 2/12 | Search | HW2 due | |
| 2/14 | Search | HW3: search | ||
| Week 7 | 2/19 | Document classification | DBM ch5 | |
| 2/21 | Document classification | HW3 due | ||
| Week 8 | 2/26 | Mid-term | ||
| 2/28 | Document classification | HW4: classification | ||
| Week 9 | 3/05 | Dialog | DBM ch6 | |
| 3/07 | Dialog | HW4 due | ||
| Week 10 | 3/19 | Dialog | ||
| 3/21 | Machine translation | DBM ch7 | HW5: dialog | |
| Week 11 | 3/26 | Machine translation | ||
| 3/28 | Machine translation | HW5 due | ||
| Week 12 | 4/02 | Crowdsourcing | Mission 4636 | HW6: translation |
| 4/04 | Impact of technology on society | Reading on Carmen | ||
| Week 13 | 4/09 | Impact of technology on society | HW6 due | |
| 4/11 | Forensic linguistics | |||
| Week 14 | 4/16 | Forensic linguistics | ||
| 4/18 | Essay due | |||
| Exam week | 4/25 | Final exam - 10:00-11:45 |