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Date:Fri, 9 Jul 2004 09:04:36 +0000 (UTC) 
Subject:Re: RE: Anyone seen "teach nlpcourse1-8?"... 
From:A . Sloman 
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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