When: Thursdays, 12.45pm-2pm
Where: English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Room TR 26
Contact: Dora Alexopoulou.
Schedule
Thurs 15 of October: RASP Parser
Reading: (i) online demo at http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/rasp/offline-demo.html
(ii) Briscoe, E., J. Carroll and R. Watson (2006) The Second Release of the RASP System. In Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Interactive Presentation Sessions, Sydney, Australia. (downloadable from the above website).
(iii) Ted Briscoe, 2006, An introduction to tag sequence grammars and the RASP
system parser, University of Cambridge Computer Lab, Technical Report: CUAM-CL-TR-662.
Thursday 29th of October: Criterial Features
Reading: Hawkins JA and P Buttery, to appear, Criterial Features in Learner
Corpora: Theory and Illustrations, English Profile Journal.
Thursday 5th of November: Searching Grammatical Relations in CLC: Postponed for the 12th of November
Focus on the searches behind the criterial features in the Hawkins&Buttery paper;
Reading: Lu Gram and Paula Buttery, 2009, Tutorial Introdcution to iLexIR Search.
Thursday 19th of November: Text Classification
Discussion of: Text classification and Naive Bayes, in Introduction to Information Retrieval, by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan \& Hinrich Schütze,Cambridge University Press, available here.
Thursday 3rd of December: Learning models
Discussion of: Briscoe, E. J. (2003) Grammatical Assimilation. In M.H. Christiansen and S. Kirby, editors, Language Evolution: The States of the Art. Oxford University Press,