Linguistics 384: Language and Computers (Autumn 2007)

Instructor: Scott Martin; Office Hours: Monday 12-2 PM or by appointment
Syllabus: (subject to change)
Meeting Times: Monday 2:30-4:18 PM in 245 Central Classrooms; Wednesdays 2:30-4:18 PM in 270 Journalism

Class Schedule (tentative)

September

19: Introduction
24 and 26: Storing language on the computer (text and speech encoding)

October

1: Storing language on the computer (continued); Quiz 1; Homework 1
3: Searching
8: Searching (continued)
10: Searching (continued); Quiz 2; Homework 2
15: Text Classification
17: Text Classification (continued)
22: Writer’s aids; Quiz 3
24: Writer’s aids (continued)
29: Writer’s aids (continued); Quiz 4; Homework 3
31: Midterm Exam (review)

November

5 and 7: Machine Translation
12: Veteran’s Day: no class
14 and 19: Machine Translation (continued)
21: Class canceled: Happy Thanksgiving!; Quiz 5; Homework 4
26: Social context of language use
28: Social context of language use (continued); Homework 5

December

6: Final Exam (11:30 AM - 1:18 PM) in 270 Journalism (review)