Human Communication 1

Timetable of lectures, Syllabus and Slides 10/11

(updated 22nd March 2011)

NOTE: THE CONTENT OF SEVERAL OF THE LECTURES WILL CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF THE SEMESTER

We include the slides used in lectures here for you to review and perhaps print out. Please note: The lecturers may change the slides up until the day of the lecture. The overall content will stay the same, however.

Also please note that clicking on the date will take you to the list of sections in the course notes that you should read for that week.

Lecture times/places: Mondays at 3 - 3.50pm, AT room 2.12 (but in room FRN, David Hume Tower in week 1 only);
Tuesday and Thursday 2pm-- 2.50pm, William Robertson Building, Room G.04(both days),

Tutorials will be held on Monday 2 - 2.50pm (NOT 4.10 - 5pm) and Tuesday at 3 - 3.50pm, both in room 3.03 Appleton Tower. Tutorials will start in week 2. See the tutorial list on the course home page for which group you are assigned to.

The slides for the lectures are in pdf.

Week Begin	No	Monday 3pm AT 2.12 (week 1 only - DHT FRN)	Tuesday 2pm WRB G.04	Thursday 2pm WRB G.04	Tutorial	Assignment out	Assignment Due
10 Jan (to read)	1	Intro and examples (HP)	Lecture cancelled	Analogies for Communication; Levels of Representation (HP)
17 Jan (to read)	2	Historical Setting, ELIZA and Turing Test (JL)	Simple Grammars: Insults and Poems (HP)	Grammar Intro (MG)	Tut 1	Assign1: Thurs 20th Jan
24 Jan (to read)	3	Grammar Based Models (MG)	Modularity and Unification (MG)	Language Controlled Calculator (MG)	Tut 2
31 Jan (to read)	4	Statistical Language Models (MG)	10. Language Acquisition (JL)	13. Methods (HP)	Tut 3
7 Feb (to read)	5	11. Language Acquisition (JL)	12. Language Acquisition (JL)	16. Ambiguity (JL)	Tut 4	Assign2: Thurs 10th Feb	Assign1: 12 noon, Mon 7th Feb
14 Feb (to read)	6	23. Discourse (JL)	18. Propaganda and advertising (JL)	14. Methods (HP)	Tut 5
21 Feb (to read)	7	15. Methods (HP)	19. Methods (HP)	24. Interpreting in uncertainty (HP)	Tut 6
28 Feb (to read)	8	20. Dialogue (JL)	21. Dialogue (JL)	22. Dialogue (MG)	Tut 7	Assign3: Thurs 3rd Mar	Assign2: 12 noon, Mon 28th Feb
7 March (to read)	9	17. Computation and Representation (JL)	25. Graphical communication (JL)	26. Non-verbal communication (JL)	Tut 8
14 March (to read)	10	27. Social communication (JL)	28. Revision (JL)		Tut 9
21 March (to read)	11	30.	31.	32.	Tut 10		Assign3: 12 noon, Thurs 24th Mar

Lecture topic
Introduction and examples	1. Intro and examples	2. Analogies for Communication; Levels of Representation	3. Historical Setting, ELIZA and Turing Test	4. Simple Grammars: Insults and Poems
Language Models	5. Grammar Intro	6. Grammar Based Models	7. Modularity and Unification	8. Language Controlled Calculator
Language Acquisition	10. Language Acquisition	11. Language Acquisition	12a. Language Acquisition
Methods	13. Methods	14. Methods	15. Methods	19. Methods
Ambiguity	16. Ambiguity	17. Ambiguity	18. Propaganda and advertising
Dialogue and Discourse	20. Dialogue: Intro	21. Dialogue Annotation	22. Dialogue: creating a corpus	23. Discourse and Grice's Maxims
Other Topics	24. Interpreting in uncertainty	25. Graphical communication	26. Non-verbal communication	28. Social communication
Revision	29. Revision

Course team

Lecturers	Tutors	ITO
Helen Pain	Johanna Moore	Kendal Reid
John Lee	Helen Pain
Marcus Guhe

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