Reading for Semester 2 week 1
1. STANDUP: see the publications page of
http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/research/standup/ (accessed 2nd February 2010)
In particular:
Ritchie, G., Manurung, R., Pain, H., Waller, A., Black, R. and O'Mara,
D. (2007) A practical application of computational humour. Pp. 91-98 in
Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational
Creativity, ed. Amilcar Cardoso and Geraint A. Wiggins. London.
2. Stenning, K., Lascarides, A. and Calder, J. (2006),
Introduction to Cognition and Communication, MIT Press.
There are copies of this in the library. Read chapter 1, on:
- Science and understanding via analogies
- Communication as the `transport of ideas'
- Communication as `resonance'
- Phatic vs. ideational communication, compared and contrasted
- Some history of Cognitive Science
3.
Some notes on Levels of Representation of Language (accessed 2nd February 2010)
4. ARTCHECK: Sentance, S. (1997), A Rule Network for
English Article Usage within an Intelligent Language Tutoring System,
Computer Assisted Language Learning, 10:2, 173 - 200
Available at:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a746722517&db=all (accessed 2nd February 2010)
Extract from notes on ArtCheck:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/helen/hc1/05artcheck.pdf (accessed 2nd February 2010)
5. For further discussion of ELIZA (and other examples) see:
Boden, M. (1987),
AI and Natural Man.
Chapters 5 and 6, 1st Edition (Harvester Press, 1987) or 2nd Edition
(MIT Press).
Turing, A.M. (1950).
Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, 59, 433-460.
Available at:
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html (accessed 2nd February 2010)
6. For information about the Loebner Prize see:
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html (accessed 2nd February 2010)