COMP248: Assigned Readings
Each week there will be assigned readings for this unit and additional readings. The assigned readings are obligatory: your understanding of the material in lectures, and your ability to carry out the practical work satisfactorily, depends on you having read the relevant background materials. Note that the exam questions will draw liberally from both the lecture material and the assigned readings.
Week 1
- Gazdar and Mellish Chapter 1: Introduction
- How Eliza Works [local] [remote]
- a history of the Turing Test
Optional
- the AAAI page on Natural Language Processing: just browse this to get an idea of the area
- a Turing Test website
- more on the Chinese room
- the Loebner prize
Week 2
- AIML Primer [local] [remote]
- Richard Wallace's AIML Overview [local] [remote]
- The first five links at Dave Inman's NLP tutorials page
Additional Readings
Week 7
- Learn Prolog Now!, Ch7: Definite Clause Grammars
Week 8
- Learn Prolog Now!, Ch8: More Definite Clause Grammars
Week 9
- CSLU Toolkit: RAD Tutorials
Week 10
- How Do Users Know What to Say? by Nicole Yankelovich, Sun Microsystems Laboratories.