Computerlinguistik: MA Language Sciences
Profilmodul: Materials
John Bateman: WS2009/2010

Materials

Overheads used:

• Profilvorlesung (pdf)
• Miniblock-Seminar: Session 1: natural language generation (pdf)
• Miniblock-Seminar Session 2: natural language analysis (pdf)
• Miniblock-Seminar Session 3. dialogue systems (pdf)

Software for playing with

SImple Analysis:

• Reischer's Linguistic Structures tool
• Stanford Statistical Parser: homepage
• WinPATR for simple unification-based grammars
  • two simple grammars (with lexicons): [zipfile], [zipfile]

Generation:

• Generation: KPML (blackbox generator) [Windows Only]
• Generation Grammars of Different Languages (home)
• KPML system home page

Literature

Accompanying Reading (some of the quality of these scans is not the best: let me know if there are parts which are too bad to read!)

Since these files are copyrighted material, they can only be opened with a password. You can have the password if you are registered for this course as a student of Bremen University!

Dale / Moisl / Somers (Hrgg)(2000) A handbook of natural language
processing: techniques and applications for the processing of language as text.
Dekker.

Chapters:
Preface, pp.iii-viii
5. Semantic Analysis (Poesio)
7. Natural Language Generation (McDonald)
13. Machine Translation (Somers)
14. Dialogue Systems: from theory to practice (Allen)

Mitkov (Hrg)(2002) Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. OUP. [to come]

Chapter:
25. Ontologies (Vossen)

Meyer (2002) Synchronic English Linguistics: An introduction. GNV

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Chapter:
4.5 Formal Semantics (pp118—132)

Additional Information on Dialogue Systems

• NLG in dialogue systems (report)
• McTear (2002) (pdf)
  Spoken Dialogue Technology: Enabling the Conversational User Interface. In ACM Computing Surverys, Vol. 34, No. 1
• Jurafsky & Martin (2005) (pdf)
  Dialogue and Conversational Agents
  Chapter 19 in An introduction to Natural Language Processing,
  Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition