Linguistics 384
Language and Computers
Winter 2006

Announcements

  • The final is Monday, March 13, at 1:30.
  • Quiz 7 is due March 10 at 5 pm.

Overview

  • Course goals: In the past decade, the widening use of computers has had a profound influence on the way ordinary people communicate, search, and store information. For the overwhelming majority of people and situations, the natural vehicle for such information is natural language. Text and to a lesser extent speech are crucial encoding formats for the information revolution.

    In this course, you will be given insight into the fundamentals of how computers are used to represent, process, and organize textual and spoken information, as well as tips on how to effectively integrate this knowledge into working practice. We will cover the theory and practice of human language technology. Topics include text encoding, search technology, tools for writing support, machine translation, dialog systems, computer aided language learning, and the social context of language technology.

    This course fulfills GEC requirement 2B: Mathematical & Logical Analysis.

  • Instructor: Adriane Boyd
    • Office: Oxley Hall 204
    • Email: adriane AT ling DOT ohio-state DOT edu
    • Phone: 688-3108 (email is generally the best way to get in touch)
    • Office hours: Tuesday 11:00am-1:00pm, or by appointment
  • Course meeting time: Monday and Wednesday 1:30-3:18pm in Page Hall 40
  • Course website: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~adriane/384/

  • Syllabus

Important Links

  • Carmen: Online quizzes will be administered through Carmen. I will also keep a current copy of your grades in Carmen so you can see how you're doing at any time.

Schedule

  • Online quizzes (listed as Quiz1, etc.) need to be submitted by 8 am on the date specified.
  • Homework (HW1, etc.) below indicates that there will be an in-class homework quiz and that the homework essay questions are due at the beginning of class.
Week Month Date Day Topic Handouts Assignments Due
1 Jan 4 W Introduction    
2   9 M Text and speech encoding (decimal-binary handout) Handout 1  
    11 W Searching (regular expression summary) Handout 2 Practice Quiz
3   16 M University Holiday    
    18 W Searching (cont.) (ICA 4 answers)   Quiz1, HW1
4   23 M Spam filtering Handout 3 Quiz2
    25 W (cont.)    HW2
5   30 M Spelling and grammar correction Handout 4 Quiz3
  Feb 1 W (cont.)   HW3
6   6 M Midterm review   Quiz4
    8 W MIDTERM    
7   13 M Machine translation (class outline) Handout 5  
    15 W (cont.) (class outline)    
8   20 M Dialogue systems (class outline) Handout 6 Quiz5
    22 W (cont.)   HW4
9   27 M (cont.)   Quiz6
  Mar 1 W CALL (class outline) Handout 7 HW5
10   6 M (cont.) (class outline)   Quiz7
    8 W Final review Final Review HW6
Final   13 M FINAL (1:30-3:18pm)    

Links

Send questions or comments: adriane AT ling DOT ohio-state DOT edu