Richter: Introduction to Computational Linguistics (WS 09/10)

General Information on the Course

• Course Description in the Campus System
• Information Sheet with syllabus etc. (distributed in the first class meeting)
• Classes: Our class meets Wednesdays, 14ct-15.45 in Hörsaal 0.02 at the SfS. The course language is English.
• Office Hours: Mondays, 11.00-12.00, SfS, Room 2.17 (Email: f.richter@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
  

Reading assignment for Feb. 3rd

Slides

• Nov. 4th
• Nov. 11th
• Nov. 18th
• Nov. 25th
  Remarks by G. K. Pullum on the Eskimo snow vocabulary
• Dec. 2nd
• Dec. 16th
• Jan. 13th
• Jan. 20th
• Jan. 27th
• Feb. 3rd
• Feb. 10th

Files for van Noord's Finite-State Tool

• The simple regular expression with a, b from the lecture on Jan. 27th
• Another simple regular expression with a,b,c
• More complex example of regular expression and automaton
• Yet another example (first introduced in class in the format of nondeterministic finite state automata)
• 3 examples from Karttunen, page 352: Figure 18.8-1, Figure 18.8-2, Figure 18.9
• Unconditional obligatory replacement of a by b
• Unconditional obligatory replacement of abc by aaa

Other Material

• Web page presenting the 23 official languages of the EU

A few links

on linguistics

• at the SfS:
  • Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft
  • Fachschaft Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

• at the Universität Tübingen:
  • The Library Catalogue
  • Sonderforschungsbereich 441 Linguistische Datenstrukturen

• elsewhere in the world:
  • The History of Mathematics Archive
  • The linguist list

on computational resources

• Introduction to UNIX at the SfS
• Emacs Beginner's HOWTO