CSC 350 Notes — Readings and Glossary

Course Title: Computational Linguistics

Required Text: No text book is used in this course.

You will be assigned on-line readings and readings held on reserve in the library.

This schedule is subject to change. Be sure to check back periodically.
All readings and exercises should be done before the class period for which they are assigned.

Week 1 — Aug 24-30.

• Wikipedia entry on Computational Linguistics
• Wikipedia entry on natural language processing — also read the talk page

Terms & Concepts

• computational linguistics
• natural language processing
• speech recognition
• speech synthesis
• corpus linguistics
• parser
• part-of-speech tagger
• machine translation
• automata theory
• artificial intelligence

Week 2 — Aug 31 - Sep 6.

Terms & Concepts

• finite automaton
• nondeterminism
• regular expression
• Perl regular expression

Week 3 — Sep 7 - Sep 13.

Terms & Concepts

• morphology
• recognizers
• transducers
• parsing
• morphological parsing
• spelling rules
• morphological rules
• stemming
• productive
• morpheme
• inflection
• nouns, verbs

  singular
   •regular  •irregular

  plural
   •regular  •irregular

• derivation
   •nominalization
• stems
• affixes  •prefix  •suffix  •infix  •circumfix
• morphological parsing
   •lexicon
   •morphotactics
   •orthographic rules
   •morphological recognition
   •lexical level
   •surface level
   •finite-state transducer
  

Week 4 — Sep 14 - Sep 20.

Terms & Concepts

• Prolog
   •procedural view
   •logic view
   •data view