Teaching Materials

Films will be shown as of 18:15 on these Mondays: 20.11 (A704) 4.12 (A704), 11.12 (A704), 6.2. (A704), 18.12 (A704), 8.1 (A704), 15.1 (A704), 22.1 (A704), 29.1 (A704), 5.2 (A704).

Syllabus
Slides/Info
- Background, India
- History, Language
- Cinematic Aspects/Things to Look out For
- Background to Bollywood
- Terms for Relatives
- Understanding Bollywood
- Lagaan:
  - Ramachandra Guha has written quite a bit on the Politics of Cricket in India.
  - Ahmed's notes
Links to the Films for Group Discussion
- Mother India
- Baghban: Link 1, Link 2
- Taal: Link 1, Link 2, Ahmed's notes
- Kahoo Na Pyaar Hai: Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4
- Rang de Basanti: Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4, The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Link, Ahmed's notes
More Links

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Readings in LFG 2005-2006

Syllabus (Semesterplan)
9. May: Theories of Case (Section 5.7)
16. May:
- Melanie Seiss on Nordlinger's Constructive Case in Argument Realization (Handout)
23. May:
- Elvir Hasancic on the Dative Alternation.
- More papers on this topic (and others) can be found on Joan Bresnan's pre-publication page.
30. May:
- Sebastian Sulger on Object Asymmetries in Comparative Bantu Syntax. Joan Bresnan and Lioba Moshi. 1990. In Linguistic Inquiry 21:47-185.
20. June:
- Raphael Kuch on German Quantifiers vs. Adjectives. Paper from LFG05 On-line Proceedings.
27. June:
- Nataliya Rudas on Topic and Focus in Russian (by Tracy King)
- Paiam Salvati on German es (by Judith Berman)
04. July:
- Dorothea Hoffman on Grammaticalization of Associated Path in Australian languages. Paper by Jane Simpson in Time over Matter (book).
18. July:
- Melanie Schmolck on Asymmetric Coordination in German. Paper from LFG02 On-line Proceedings.
25. July:
- Macary, Schories: Machine Translation: first paper by Anette Frank, Statistical Machine Translation by Riezler and Maxwell.
Nominals: Inside and Out (Book)
Lexical Semantics in LFG (Book)
The Status of Case in Urdu (Paper)

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Diskurs und Text 2005-2006

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Diachronic Perspectives on Case 2014

Grammar Development 2018

Syllabus
Tutorial on XLE/LFG at ICON 2007, Hyderabad
Exercises
Slides
Links
Grammars
- grammar1.lfg
- grammar2.lfg

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Textverarbeitung mit Python 2012-2013
Text Processing with Python

Semesterplan
Unix/Terminal Hilfe (Germanu)
Unix/Terminal Help (English)
Abschlussprojekt
Python Materials
- Swaroop's A Byte of Python
- Python's Official Documentation
- pythonwiki
- Damir Ćavar's Python 3.0 Installation Instructions
- Ron Zacharski's first few chapters on Python for Linguists
- Damir Ćavar's 2005 course materials for Python for Computational Linguists
- The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK).
- O'Reilly's books
- Das Python-Tutorium von Guido van Rossum
- Dive Into Python
- Python Regular Expression HOWTO
- URL Lib HOWTO
- Tree Tagger How-To
POS Tagging
- Tagsets
  - Stuttgart-Tübingen Tagset (STTS)
  - Penn Treebank Tagset
- NLP Resources (Chris Manning's Page: Taggers, Chunkers, etc.)
Quiz
- Quiz 1
- Quiz 2
Exercises/Übungen

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Linguistic Gaming with Python 2014-2015

Syllabus
Unix/Terminal Help (German)
Unix/Terminal Help (English)
Regex Example
Unicode Example
Exercise Results
Python Materials
- Michael Dawson's Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner
- Al Sweigart's books for Inventing with Python.
- Will McGugan's Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame
- The Pygame Documentation
- Allen B. Downey's Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
- Swaroop's A Byte of Python
- Python's Official Documentation
- pythonwiki
- Ron Zacharski's first few chapters on Python for Linguists
- O'Reilly's books
- Das Python-Tutorium von Guido van Rossum
- Dive Into Python
- Python Regular Expression HOWTO
- URL Lib HOWTO
Exercises

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Machine Translation II 2004-2005

Semesterplan
Machine Translation: an Introductory Guide (by Doug Arnold, et al.)

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Focus and Intonation: The Syntax-Phonology Interface 2004-2005

with Aditi Lahiri and Carsten Eulitz

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Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) 2014

This course was recorded. The course lectures can be found on:

iTunesU. Search for "Miriam Butt" and look for Syntax III: Lexical-Functional Grammar
At the University of Konstanz's recording service: Syntax III: Lexcial-Functional Grammar

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Machine Language Processing 2014

Semesterplan/Syllabus
Unix/Terminal Hilfe (German)
Unix/Terminal Help (English)
Slides
Final Lecture (Recording)
Exercises
Extra Material
- Annette Hautli's introductory slides on Computational Semantics
- Slides for Discourse and Anaphora
- Tutorial on XLE/LFG at ICON 2007, Hyderabad
- Folien zu Maschinelle Übersetzung Geschichte von Karl Heinz Wagner.
- Folien zu Maschinelle Übersetzung Architektur von Karl Heinz Wagner.
- Slides for Lexical Semantics
- Jurafsky and Martin's Speech and Language Processing
- Article on Mind vs. Machine in Atlantic Magazine
- Useful Links

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Introduction to Computational Linguistics 2004-2005

Semesterplan/Syllabus
Links
- Stuttgart-Tübingen Tagset (STTS)
Slides/Folien
- POS (pdf, ppt)
- Porter Stemmer (pdf, ppt)
- FST Morphology I (pdf, ppt)
- FST Morphology II (pdf, ppt)
- Parsing I (pdf, ppt)
- Chunk Parsing (pdf, ppt)
- Precision/Recall (pdf, ppt)
- Lexicon I (pdf, ppt)
- Lexicon II (pdf, ppt)
- Lexical Nets (pdf, ppt)
- Generation (pdf, ppt)
- Anaphora/Discourse (pdf, ppt)
- Parsing/Generation: Coling 2004 LFG/XLE Tutorial
Exercises/Übungen
Papers
- Butt, Miriam and Tracy Holloway King. 2003. Grammar Writing, Testing and Evaluation. In Ali Farghaly (ed.) A Handbook for Language Engineers. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. (ps, pdf)