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, Richard. L. Lewis, 1993, PhD thesis, Carnegie Mellon University). A short overview of the dissertation is provided in this 6-page paper: An architecturally-based theory of sentence comprehension, R.L. Lewis, 1993, Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 108-113. Other NL-Soar publications can be found here. Nate’s handout will be posted here soon.

We discussed NLTK and NLTK-related syntax and semantics resources several times this quarter. The following 2 handouts / summaries were distributed at the beginning of 6th meeting for more information: Intro to the NLTK syntax and semantics resources and NLTK Parsing Demos.

The 7th (penult.) meeting this quarter will take place this coming Friday (March 7) and will be led by Karl, who will discuss ACT-R.