This is our wonderfully ambitious schedule.
We'll attempt to keep with it, but it is subject to modification.

Date Topic Readings
(* = to be read by this class.
All others are reference readings
)
Notices &
Assignments
4/2/13 Admin & Selection of Articles
[Lisa & Mark]

4/4/13 Analysis by synthesis
[Lisa]


* (1) Bever & Poeppel 2010
Emailed discussion questions due
4/9/13 Sounds:
Phoneme identification
[Brent]


* (1) Martin et al. 2013 Emailed discussion questions due
4/11/13 Sounds:
Phone recognition
[Grant]


* (1) Mohamed et al. 2012
(2) Hinton 2007
(3) Hinton & Salakhudinov 2006, supporting material, matlab code
(4) Mnih & Hinton 2007
(5) Hinton & Salakhutdinov 2011
(6) Hinton 2012 IPAM tutorial on Deep Belief Nets: (pdf), videos for presentation
(7) Videos of Deep Belief Nets in action: Generating digits, Generating walks

Emailed discussion questions due
4/16/13 Sounds:
Phonotactic learning
[Lisa]


* (1) Martin 2011

Emailed discussion questions due
4/18/13 NO CLASS

Get a head start on the reading
for next time and check out
Mark and friends at the Wisdom of the Crowds IMBS conference

4/23/13 Sounds + Words:
Phoneme + lexicon learning
[Brent]


* (1) Elsner et al. 2012 Emailed discussion questions due
4/25/13 Words:
Segmentation
[Brent]


* (1) McInnes & Goldwater 2011 Emailed discussion questions due
4/30/13 Words:
Segmentation
[Lisa]


* (1) Lignos 2012
(2) Lignos 2011
(3) Chan & Lignos 2011

Emailed discussion questions due
5/2/13 Words:
Word meaning
[Lawrence]


* (1) Stevens et al. 2013 Ms
Emailed discussion questions due
5/7/13 Words:
Word meaning
[Lawrence]


* (1) Fazly et al. 2010
Emailed discussion questions due
5/9/13 Words:
Word meaning
[Grant]


* (1) Hidaka & Smith 2010
Emailed discussion questions due
5/14/13 Child behavior:
Regularization
[Lisa]


* (1) Perfors 2013 Ms
(2) Perfors 2012
(3) Perfors 2011

Emailed discussion questions due
5/16/13 Grammatical categorization
[Lawrence]


* (1) Frank et al. 2010
Emailed discussion questions due
5/21/13 Syntax:
Phrase structure
[Mark]


* (1) Sankaran 2010
(2) Ponvert et al. 2011
(3) Klein & Manning 2004
(4) Klein & Manning 2002

Emailed discussion questions due
5/23/13 Syntax:
Starting small
[Hilary]


* (1) Rafferty & Griffiths 2010
Emailed discussion questions due
5/28/13 Syntax + semantics
[Lisa]


* (1) Kwiatkowski et al. 2012

Emailed discussion questions due
5/30/13 Syntax + semantics
[Hilary]


* (1) Parisien & Stevenson 2010


Emailed discussion questions due
6/4/13 Linguistic cues:
Mental states
[Hilary]


* (1) Stone 2003a
(2) Andre et al. 2004
(3) Pearl & Steyvers 2013 in press
(4) Stone 2003b
(5) Allen & Perrault 1980

Emailed discussion questions due
6/6/13 Machine reading:
Knowledge acquisition
[Mark]


* (1) Carlson et al. 2010
(2) Talukdar et al. 2012
(3) Krishnamurthy & Mitchell 2011
Emailed discussion questions due