Chris, Bill,
> I hate to get picky, but it was me too Chris!
>
> We're talking about teach nlpcourse1-8 here -- taught as part of a COGS
> School Course in AI circa 1993 (?). I think that there was a previous
> teach nlpcourse relating to the Gazdar-Mellish text book on NLP, but the
> code examples were all from the Prolog version of the book.
>
> Best
> Bill Keller
The files are still in the local teach directory at Sussex.
If you'd like me to, I could make them available as a package
at the free poplog site
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html
subject to the poplog copyright notice:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/copyright.html
(whose wording was agreed with the Sussex legal office a few
years ago).
I am sure many people will find those files a useful extension to
the existing NLP stuff already available e.g. teach grammar, and
teach storygrammar:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/teach/storygrammar
The importance of such structure-based teaching materials will
grow again as the limitations of the statistical, corpus-based,
approach to natural language processing become more widely
understood.
I see that approach as a temporary fad which fails to distinguish
a side effect of fluency-optimising processes in language-users
from the more basic mechanisms that make it possible to
understand and use language in the way humans do.
A similar comment could be made about current fashions in AI
vision research.
Cheers.
Aaron
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