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Advanced Semantics, Spring 2005
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Abstract: Current work on semantics and questions of logic and meaning for syntactic systems in generative grammar.
Architectural Design Workshop: Collage - Method and Form, Spring 2004
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Abstract: This class investigates the theory, method, and form of collage. It studies not only the historical precedents for collage and their physical attributes, but the psychology and process that plays a part in the making of them. The class was broken into three parts, changing scales and methods each time, ... More »
Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications, Fall 2006
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Abstract: This course will explore the state of the art in common sense knowledge, and class projects will design and build interfaces that can exploit this knowledge to make more usable and helpful interfaces. This year's theme will be about how common sense knowledge differs in different languages and cultures, ... More »
Introduction to Linguistics, Spring 2004
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Abstract: This class will provide some answers to basic questions about the nature of human language. Throughout the course, we will be learning (in many different ways) that human language is a surprisingly intricate -- yet law-governed and fascinating mental system. In the first 2/3 of the class, we will study ... More »
Introduction to Linguistics, Spring 2005
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Abstract: This core-curriculum lingusitics class will provide some answers to basic questions about the nature of human language. Topics include the intricate system that governs language, how it is acquired, the similarities and differences among languages, and how spoken (and signed) language relates to written ... More »
Natural Language and the Computer Representation of Knowledge, Spring 2003
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Abstract: Relationship between computer representation of knowledge and the structure of natural language. Emphasizes development of the analytical skills necessary to judge the computational implications of grammatical formalisms, and uses concrete examples to illustrate particular computational issues. Efficient ... More »
Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory, Fall 2006
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Abstract: Formal theories of context-dependency, presupposition, implicature, context-change, focus and topic. Special emphasis on the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics. Applications to the analysis of quantification, definiteness, presupposition projection, conditionals and modality, anaphora, ... More »
Special Topics in Media Technology: Computational Semantics, Fall 2002
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Abstract: How do words get their meanings? How can word meanings be represented and used by machines? We will explore three families of approaches to these questions from a computational perspective. Relational / structural methods such as semantic networks represent the meaning of words in terms of their relations ... More »
