Spring 2014: Meetings 1-3

The plan for the spring quarter and possibly early summer is to read and work through the following two books:

  • Bayesian Cognitive Modeling: A Practical Course (Lee & Wagenmakers 2014): see this pdf for the first two parts of the book and also this website for additional materials (code, answers to …
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Winter 2014: Meeting 8

Tue 11 March 2014 by Nate Arnett, Adrian Brasoveanu

The last meeting of the quarter will take place this Friday (March 14) in Stevenson 232 (Eye-tracking lab; please note the change of venue) and it will be LASC related. Nate and Adrian will talk about some of their recent language processing research and how it links with issues of …

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Winter 2014: Meetings 5-7

The 5th meeting this quarter was dedicated to a discussion of Hale (2011), led by Karl. His handout is available here.

The 6th meeting was dedicated to a discussion of NL-Soar led by Nate and based primarily on Lewis’s ‘93 dissertation: An Architecturally-based Theory of Human Sentence Comprehension …

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Winter 2014: Meeting 4

The fourth meeting this quarter took place on Fri Feb. 7. There won’t be any meeting on Fri Feb. 14, our next meeting will be on Fri Feb. 21 (same time and place) and Karl will lead the discussion of Hale’s 2011 paper. Nate will then guide us …

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Winter 2014: Meeting 3

The third meeting this quarter took place on Fri Jan. 31. We discussed garden-path phenomena based on ch. 4 of Hale’s ms. and the general view of parsing (and other language-related cognitive processes, e.g., learning) as heuristic-based search through an appropriate state space. We discussed (greedy) best-first and …

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Winter 2014: Meeting 2

The second meeting this quarter took place on Fri Jan. 24. We looked at some NLTK parsing demos, namely recursive descent (top-down, depth-first), bottom-up and left-corner parsers.

Nate discussed left-corner parsing in detail and the empirical evidence that favors left-corner parsers as models of the human parser / processor over purely …

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Winter 2014: Meeting 1

The first LaLoCo meeting this quarter took place on Fri Jan. 17 and it was well attended — thank you everyone for coming and participating!

We discussed chapters 3 and 4 of John Hale’s textbook draft, in particular: regular and context free grammars, finite state and push down automata, and …

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Winter 2014: Plan

The first LaLoCo meeting this quarter will take place on Fri Jan. 17 — not this coming Fri, but the next one. Regular time: Fridays, 2:15-3:15 pm. Place: Meeting & Analysis room (Stevenson 217).

Karl, Nate and I will do a series of lab meetings about parsing this quarter. The …

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Course materials for Sem 3 (Fall 2013): Computational Formal Semantics with Haskell

Wed 27 November 2013 by Adrian Brasoveanu

Semantics 3 (fall 2013; upper div. undergraduate course, UCSC Linguistics) was dedicated to introducing computational formal semantics with Haskell. The course materials (syllabus, lectures notes, hw assignments, solutions etc.) are provided below. The ghci commands are numbered in the same way in the pdf and the corresponding hs files for …

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Fall 2013: Meeting 5

Thu 14 November 2013 by Karl DeVries

The last meeting of the quarter took place today. Karl presented ch. 7 of Cooper’s textbook and Jurafski (1996). The slides are available here:

Continuing today’s theme, the meetings next quarter (winter 2014) will be entirely dedicated to parsing. More details will be posted here when …

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