January 2006
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8

Week 1 
9 10

Introduction
Reading: ``I'm sorry Dave..., Lillian Lee
11 12

NLP Overview
Reading: Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing.
13 14
15

Week 2 
16

MLK Day
17

AI Completeness, Philosophical Issues
Reading: Can Machines Think?Daniel Dennett
18 19

More Philosophy
Reading: Handout
20 21
22

Week 3 
23 24

Speech - Phonemes and formants
25

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!
26

Speech - Phonemes and formants
Praat
27 28
29

Week 4 

Gongxi facai
30 31

Speech - HMMs
     

February 2006
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
      1 2

Speech - HMMs
3 4
5

Week 5 
6 7

Speech - HMMs
Reading: Intro to Syntax
8 9

Parsing- What is it?
10 11
12

Week 6 

X Week
13 14

Parsing- Grammars
15 16

Parsing- Grammars
Reading: Statistical Parsing
17 18
19

Week 7 
20

Presidents Day
21

Parsing- Probability
22

Grades Due
23

Parsing- Probability
24 25
26

Week 8 
27 28

Parsing- Probability
     

March 2006
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
      1 2

Semantics- Basics
3 4
5

Week 9 
6 7

Semantics- Logic, λ calculus
8 9

Semantics- Case Roles
10 11
12

Spring Break
13

Spring Break
14

Spring Break
15

Spring Break
16

Spring Break
17

Spring Break
18
19

Week 10 
20 21

Cancelled
22 23

Semantics- Other models
24 25
26

Week 11 
27 28

Semantics- Scripts, Plans, Goals
Reading: Discourse Modelling
(PDF version)
29 30

Discourse, Prgamatics
Reading: SpeechActs: A Spoken Language Framework
31

April 2006
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
            1
2

Week 12 

X Week
3 4

Discourse, Prgamatics
5 6

Discourse, Prgamatics
7 8
9

Week 13 
10 11

Generation - Syntax

Grades Due
12 13

Generation - Syntax
14 15
16

Week 14 
17 18

Speech Synthesis
19 20

Presentations:
Austin, Barkley
21 22
23

Week 15 
24 25

Presentations:
Appelbaum, Hackman
26 27

Presentations:
Adams, Mohr
28 29
30

Week 16 

May 2006
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
  1

Study Day
2

First Final
3 4 5 6
7 8 9

Last Final
10 11

Grades Due
12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31