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CSE 642: TECHNIQUES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Directory of Documents

Back to homepage for CSE 642 Back to syllabus for CSE 642 (the syllabus was originally handed out Jan 16, but will be continually updated; changes will be announced in lecture and/or in the newsgroup) Bibliography of Computational CVA Go to: newsgroup archive Go to: CSE 642 newsgroup How to Study

1. Warren Weaver on MT
   • locally cached version

2. On Word-Sense Disambiguation:

   • Ide, Nancy, & Véronis, Jean (1998), "Word Sense Disambiguation: The State of the Art", Computational Linguistics: 24(1): 1-40.

   • Kilgarriff, Adam (1998), "SENSEVAL: An Exercise in Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Programs", in Proceedings of LREC (Granada, May 1998): 581-588.
     • cited at: SENSEVAL Home Page
     • which, in turn, is cited at: SENSEVAL-2

3. Current Assignment Sheet (April 19)

4. On Cultural Literacy vs. Critical Thinking:
   • Cultural Literacy:
     • Hirsch, Jr., E.D. (1985), "Cultural Literacy and the Schools," American Educator (Summer 1985): 8-15.
     • Hirsch, Jr., E.D. (1987), Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Boston: Houghton Mifflin).
     • Hirsch, Jr., E.D.; Kett, Joseph F.; & Trefil, James (1988), The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin).
     • Hirsch, Jr., E.D., with Rowland, William G., Jr., & Stanford, Michael (eds.) (1996), A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Our Children Need to Know, 2nd edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin).
   • Critical Thinking á la Howard Gardner:
     • "Howard Gardner's Comments on Gardner and Hirsch in the New York Times, Saturday, September 11, 1999"

5. On "gavagai":
   • Quine, Willard Van Orman (1960), Word and Object (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

6. SNePS:
   • SNePS Research Group (SNeRG) homepage
   • SNePS readings
   • SNePS Tutorial:
     • dvi
     • pdf
     • ps

7. For more information on the "andor" connective in SNePS, click here.

8. Miscellaneous References
   • Look here for references that I mention in class (e.g., holism).

9. Freshman-level lecture notes on AI

10. Some Standard Sources of Information on AI

11. Definitions of AI:
    • Two Contrasting Definitions of AI
    • Some Definitions of "Artificial Intelligence"

12. Artificial IQ Test

13. What Is Computation?