Week 1: Introduction

* Tu
  The "field"
  Questioning everything sacred
* Th
  The big picture
  Dimensions along which approaches vary
  Kinds of linguistic knowledge
  Overview of connectionist models 

Week 2: Words -- Phonology, Morphology: A Symbolic Approach

* Readings: Gazdar and Mellish, ch. 2; Antworth
* Tu
  Phonology and morphology: linguistic introduction
  Two-level phonology/morphology (updated 9/12) 

Week 3: Words -- Phonology, Morphology: Connectionist Approaches

* Readings: Gasser, Regier
* Tu
  Two-level phonology/morphology: recognition
  Acquisition of morphology
* Th
  Project ideas
  Reduplication: A challenge to morphology models

Week 4: Words -- Lexical Semantics: Symbolic and Connectionist Approaches

* Tu
  Lexical semantics
  Mel'chuk's approach to lexical relations (Ari)
  Tour of LETRS (Main Library) 

Week 5: Words -- Lexical Semantics: Statistical Approaches; Speech

* Readings: Schütze, Allen (Appendix C)
* Tu
  Grounding word meaning
  Schütze (Doug)
  Word-sense disambiguation
* Th
  Speech 

Week 6: Phrases and Sentences -- Context-Free Grammars, Augmented Grammars

* Reading: Gazdar and Mellish, ch. 4
* Tu
  Syntax and semantics 1
* Th
  Grammars 1 

Week 7: Phrases and Sentences -- Syntax and Semantics, Compositionality

* Tu
  Grammars 2
  More problems with simple context-free grammars (Yes, this is an old slide from C564.)
  Introduction to information-based grammars
* Th
  What HPSG grammars look like (1) 

Week 8: Phrases and Sentences -- Unification Grammars

* Tu
  What HPSG grammars look like (2)
* Th
  Unification revisited
  Parsing 1 

Week 9: Phrases and Sentences -- Connectionist Syntax and Semantics

* Readings: Pollack, Elman
* Tu
  Another HPSG example
  The problem of structure in connectionist nets
* Th
  Connectionist approaches to structure
  Pollack (Jeff) 

Week 10: Phrases and Sentences: Connectionist Structure (cont.), Parsing

* Tu
  Elman (Andy)
  More on connectionist structure
* Th
  Some parsing issues 

Week 11: Phrases and Sentences -- Parsing and Generation; Spreading-Activation Approaches

* Readings: Lange and Wharton
* Tu
  Chart parsing
  Ambiguity
* Th
  Some approaches to sentence generation
  Lange and Wharton (Jim) 

Week 12: Machine Translation, Statistical Approaches Again, Discourses -- Symbolic Approaches

* Readings: Hutchins and Somers, Allen (ch. 7)
* Tu
  Localist connectionist networks
  Statistical approaches to syntax
* Th
  Machine translation: Hutchins and Somers (Michael)

Week 13: Discourses -- Symbolic Approaches

* Tu
  Machine translation (cont.)
  Pragmatics (overview)
  Speech acts 1
  Speech acts 2 

Week 14: Discourses -- Symbolic and Connectionist Approaches

* Reading: St. John
* Tu
  Progress report on project due
  St. John (Wendy)
  Using world knowledge
* Th
  Discourse structure
  Mélange of last-minute topics: metaphor, metonymy, humor, deception (none of which I have a good account of) 

Week 15: Language Acquisition Revisited

* Tu
  Comparison and analogy; mental spaces
* Th
  Language acquisition
  Parting thoughts
  Final exam 

Week 16

* Mo (23:59:59)
  Exams due (electronically)
* Tu (5:00-7:00pm)
  Reports on projects
  Project reports due