Beskjeder - Side 2
We have now posted model solutions to the first practical exercise; please compare your own solutions to ours and decide where differences are mostly a matter of style, or whether either your solution our ours has genuine advantages over the other. We have also made available a fresh exercise for the laboratory tomorrow; please see the detailed course plan for access to both the model solution and new assignment.
This next Tuesday, there will be a combination of lecturing (introducing additional data types and techniques in Lisp) and a fresh optional exercise. However, the programming for this next exercise will be closely related to the kind of implementation we will need for the first obligatory exercise. Hence, as always, please make sure to use your weekly allowance of additional hours for this course (almost nine hours, in addition to our four hours of instruction, each week) to work through the implementation assignment. Happy Valentine!
Please keep up to date with the obligatory readings; during the lectures, we will typically assume that you have read all relevant and assigned parts ahead of time. It is quite okay to not understand every detail when you first read a chapter, but please bring clarification questions into the lecture then. Note the additional reading from Jurafsky & Martin (2008) for next weeks; see the course schedule for details.
Here are some pointers to freely available Common Lisp implementations
To connect to our course environment at IFI, you will either need your own installation of X Windows and ssh, and then connect to login.ifi.uio.no. Or you can first connect to windows.ifi.uio.no, using Windows Remote Desktop, and then click on the Linux icon on the desktop, to connect to the IFI Linux servers.
Akademika (the book shop on campus) now has copies of Sag, Wasow, & Bender (2003) in stock, the text book that we will need for the later parts of the semester.
After class today, I changed my mind about the mandatory parts of Jurafsky & Martin (2008) that I want you to read prior to our next lecture (Thursday, February 7): feel free to skip Sections 3.4.1, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9.1, and onwards. In other words, we will barely scratch the surface of Finite-State Transducers and two-level morphology. Instead, we will use a little more time on the regular algebra, so consider re-reading the last parts of Chapter 2.
The room assigned to our Tuesday laboratories has changed. So please note that we will meet in the building called Preklinisk Odontologi (PO-bygget), where we are assigned Seminarrom 121 (Disseksjonssalen).
Due to illness, our first laboratory meeting is moved to Tuesday next week, January 29. The Thursday lecture this week will likely be given, but please watch this space for further announcements.
The class will be taught in English this term. The main textbook for the first part of the term is Jurafsky & Martin (2008), which we will make available electronically at no cost to students (there is no point buying the earlier, first edition). The second part of the class will use select chapters of Sag, Wasow, & Bender (2003) (here too, it is the second edition we need, and the earlier first edition has hardly any value to this class). The book is available in limited numbers from the UiO library, but we strongly recommend you buy your own copy (e.g. through Akademika or Amazon). More information on background literature and course organization in the first, obligatory meeting this Thursday!