Contents

 
• Language and Computers: Introduction to linguistic programming - Anglistik (Do 10-12)
• Timetable
  • Notes on student group reports
• Unit 1: Computers and language
• Unit 2: Prolog: facts
  • Responses
• Unit 3: Prolog: queries and rules
  • Querying facts
  • Rules
  • Implementing queries with constants
  • Implementing queries with variables
  • Tasks
  • A Wuthering Heights database (Siggi Preuß)
    • Wuthering heights database
    • Queries to Wuthering Heights database
    • Output of the Wuthering Heights programme
• Unit 4: An append-rule (ID/LP) grammar
  • Grammar development as an interactive process
  • ID/LP grammar and lexicon
  • Prolog implementation
    • Utilities
    • Grammar and Lexicon
    • Query generator
  • Main Prolog caller
  • Query output
  • Error Messages
  • Tasks
• Unit 6: The Lexicon
• Unit 7: Lexical databases
  • Gazdar & Mellish: NLP in Prolog (ch.7) -- Report by Michael Bucher
    • A lexical database
    • Representation of lexical knowledge
    • Encoding of basic syntactic information
    • Encoding of semantic information
    • Encoding of morphological information
    • How to use this lexicon in an NLP system
    • Summary
• Unit 8: Finite State Automata
• Unit 11: Finite state grammar checkers
• Working with Prolog, Windows 95 and the Web
• References