CSC 447 :: April 29

Spring 2010

Myro come home!!

   – Check in

iMyro Project: Team oral mini-reports

   – progress

   – problems

   – if more time, next direction

metaKnowledge (last try)

   – mnSP Problem

Memory & Computation

   – Chomsky Hierarchy & memory

HRC - Human-Robot Communication

   – Examples of work being done

   – spatial issues in HRC & a bit more here

   – KANTRA

more NLP Basics  

  –Syntax, semantics, pragmatics

          Syntax – Syntax is the study of the rules, or "patterned relations",

                   that govern the way words combine to form phrases and

                   phrases combine to form sentences.

                   Syntax is all about form

          Semantics – Semantics tells about the meaning in a language, code,

                   or other form of representation.

                   Semantics is all about the meaning.

          Pragmatics – Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics  which studies the

                   ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics

                   encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature, talk

                   in interaction and other approaches to language behavior in

                   philosophy, sociology, and linguistics.

                   Pragmatics is concerned with bridging the explanatory

                   gap between sentence meaning and speaker's meaning.

                   Pragmatics is all about use.

Assignment:                                                

1. Study for final exam