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We have finalized the submission days for the four obligatory problem sets; please make sure to leave room in your calendars for on-time completion of these assignments. We will publish the first problem set, including instructions on now to run Common Lisp at the IFI Linux environment, on Wednesday, September 3 (most likely, sometime in the afternoon).

We have published a preliminary schedule of lectures with a breakdown of topics and readings. Note that in almost all weeks lectures will be complemented with two hours of laboratory work, where we combine interactive instruction with hands-on implementation exercises. The first such session is on Monday, September 8. We will add laboratory entries to the schedule as we go along, but by default there will be one every Monday (from 14:15 to 16:00) between September 8 and November 24.

Akademika reports that they are still waiting for delivery of SpeechandLanguageProcessing, which is expected to arrive later in August. Apparently the book is not yet available in Europe, only through on-line US booksellers. Don't panic! We will report once the book arrives at Akademika, and we will make available pre-print electronic copies of select chapters if need be.

This course is taught in English. The class will introduce Common-Lisp as a versatile and (still) modern tool for symbolic computation, looking at problems in Artificial Intelligence and (predominantly) Computational Linguistics. The focus here will be (a) general search techniques (FSA recognition, PoS tagging, parsing, and unification), (b) memoization and dynamic programming, and (c) basic machine learning techniques (classification, sequence labeling, PCFGs). Please take a look at the reading list and obtain a personal copy of the main textbook, SpeechandLanguageProcessing (2nd Edition), and either make sure you can comfortably read the on-line copy of PracticalCommonLisp, or buy your own paper edition. Further information on the course schedule and topics will be posted prior to the first lecture....