Linguistics 384
Language and Computers
Autumn 2005

Announcements

  • The final is on Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 11:30AM-1:18AM.

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 9:30-10:30am, Wednesday 3:30-4:30pm, 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

  • Homework is due at the beginning of class on the date given below.
  • Quizzes need to be submitted by midnight on the date specified.
  • You can download the slides where slides go across rows (in rows) or down columns (in columns). The content is exactly the same in both versions. The only difference is the formatting.
Week Month Date Day Topic Assignments Due
1 Sept 21 W Introduction  
2   26 M Text and speech encoding (slides in rows, slides in columns)  
    28 W (cont.) (decimal-binary conversion handout) Practice Quiz
3 Oct 3 M Searching (slides in rows, slides in columns) Quiz1
    5 W (cont.) (ICA 5 Answers) HW1
4   10 M Spam filtering (slides in rows, slides in columns) Quiz2
    12 W (cont.) HW2
5   17 M Spelling correctors (slides in rows, slides in columns) Quiz3
    19 W Grammar correctors (HW2 Bonus) HW3
6   24 M Midterm review (midterm review handout) Quiz4
    26 W MIDTERM  
7   31 M Machine translation (slides in rows, slides in columns)  
  Nov 2 W (cont.)  
8   7 M (cont.) Quiz5
    9 W Dialogue systems (slides in rows, slides in columns) HW4
9   14 M (cont.) Quiz6
    16 W (cont.) HW5
10   21 M CALL (slides in rows, slides in columns) Quiz7
    23 W (cont.) (HW Extra Credit)  
11   28 M Social context of language technology use (slides in rows, slides in columns) Quiz8
    30 W Final review HW6
Final Dec 7 W FINAL (11:30am-1:18pm!) (Final Review)  

Links

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