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Course: Natural Language Syntax (CS 6998) Spring 2005. Martin Jansche and Owen Rambow. TIME, LOCATION. Wednesdays 11 :00AM-12:50PM In 620 CEPSR (tbc) The course starts January 19, 2005
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Course: Natural Language Syntax (CS 6998) Spring 2005 Martin Jansche and Owen Rambow
TIME, LOCATION • Wednesdays 11 :00AM-12:50PM • In 620 CEPSR (tbc) • The course starts January 19, 2005 • Offical info: COMS E6998-1 (28753), Topics In Computer Science, I (Adv Tpcs/naturl Lang Proc) 3.0 0 O. Rambow
WHAT IS NATURAL LANGUAGE SYNTAX? • Syntax = structure of natural language utterances • Syntax = interface between surface strings and meaning • Example: Who does what to whom? • Pat convinced Robin to shave • Pat promised Robin to shave • Pat left Robin to shave Not just a matter of words having different meanings!
COURSE OUTLINE • What is syntax? • Descriptive introduction to some of the core linguistic phenomena (English, other languages) • Frameworks for the representation of syntax: TAG, HPSG, LFG, Chomskyan Minimalism • Computational aspects
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE? • Anyone interested in natural language • Natural language processing/AI students in computer science • Students in other disciplines who need an overview of syntax, including formal approaches to representing syntax
COURSE REQUIREMENTS • One to three short presentations in class (5-15 minutes); examples: • Raising constructions in Nepali • An LFG analysis of wh-movement in Egyptian Arabic • Final project: a paper and/or an implementation; can focus on linguistic, formal, and/or computational issues; examples: • Wh-movement and relative clauses in Egyptian Arabic • Raising in Malagasy and the formal power of LFG • A robust parser using TAG • A processing model for garden-path sentences in English based on Categorial Grammar