Oct 23: Clarification to assignment 1: If a meaning component occurs more than once in an utterance meaning, only add one "copy" of it to the possible set of meaning components of a new word.

Oct 20: I just posted a correction to the first assignment. If you have already printed it, simply change "For each word in a sentence" to "For each word in the sentence" in Rule 1. "The sentence" means the sentence in the current input item, as we discussed in class.

Oct 20: I would like to be able to reach everyone by email when there is something important to communicate regarding the class. Please send me an email with your preferred email address, and remember to put "INX 199" in the subject line. Thanks!

Oct 19: In the near future (November 2), you will get an assignment that depends on using a computer lab. We'll have a tutorial that day in a lab (we'll leave as a group from our normal classroom), but then you'll need to work on your own in a lab that week on the assignment (as well as during the weeks of Nov. 16 and Nov 30 on the subsequent computational assignments). See the assignments page for details on labs and computer accounts.

Oct 19: Here is the first clarification posting on the assignment; we talked about it in class. In each table corresponding to an input item, you should show the initial table, with Possible and Necessary sets appropriately initialized (for newly observed words) or taken from the table before (for previously seen words). Each application of a rule should be shown by neatly crossing out a meaning component or adding a meaning component to the appropriate set. Put the number of the rule you apply in a small circle right next to the change(s) you make using that rule.

Oct 19: Your first written assignment is now available on the website under the Assignments link. Hardcopies are also available if you prefer to pick one up from the main Artificial Intelligence office in PT 283 (this is in the anteroom right outside my office). The receptionist will have them in a box on the main desk. Sorry for the mishap with the printing!

Please read through the assignment carefully in the next day or two and make sure you understand exactly what you're expected to do. You should email me with any questions at all. Don't hesitate to email me: I will post general clarifications, and your questions may help somebody else as well!

Oct 12: All four written assignments will be handed out exactly one week before they are due. So, eg, the assignment due on Oct. 26 will be handed out during next week's class (Oct. 19).

Oct 5: There was some confusion about the topics on next week's in-class essay. You are responsible for the material on both (1) the properties of language (the material emphasized in class 2) and (2) the arguments for and against universal grammar: the nativist view and the usage-based view, respectively (the material we covered in classes 3 and 4). There will be one essay question on each of these topics.

Oct 5: I will hold special office hours on Oct 11, 1-3pm.