Meurers, 795E, Autumn 2001: Programming Techniques for Computational Linguistics

Detmar Meurers: Advanced Programming Techniques for Computational Linguistics (795E, Autumn 2001)

General description of 795E courses

Course description of this 795E instance

Following the feedback I received regarding the level of 795E, which can be introductory or advanced, this year we'll have an advanced seminar. The course will be based on Richard O'Keefe's excellent book "The Craft of Prolog". During the first two weeks, I'll present the basic topics in Prolog covered in Chapter 1, after which all participants get to pick and present different subjects from the book. In parallel to the seminar as such, each student will specify and implement a small software project agreed on during the first couple of weeeks. If you're thinking about doing computational projects in the symbolic domain, taking this course is highly recommended.

Organizational information

Lecture materials

Detmar: Basic Topics in Prolog (Background and Ch. 1)(slides,code)
Anna & Arantxa: Searching (Ch. 2) (slides including code)
Sun-Hee: Where does the space go? (Ch. 3, Memory and Cuts)
Markus: Methods of Programming (Ch. 4) (slides,code)
Vanessa: Data structure design (Ch. 5) (code)
Mike: Sequences (Ch. 6) (slides1, slides2, code)
Anna & Arantxa: Some Notes on Grammar Rules (Chapter 8) (slides including code)
Detmar: Prolog Macros (Ch. 9) (slides, example grammar, macro facility code)

Some useful things

Manuals
- Sicstus-Prolog (html/pdf)
- SWI-Prolog (html/pdf)
Code
- library read_sent_sics.pl for reading in sentences instead of prolog terms(author: O'Keefe; with minor modification to work in Sicstus)
- various other free prolog libraries from the code/library directory of the CMU Prolog Repository (check out their valuable site for much other useful Prolog code).This includes e.g. the DEC-10 libraries mentioned in O'Keefe

For questions or comments regarding this page, please contact: Detmar Meurers

Last modified: Mon Dec 10 11:28:44 EST 2001