ideas-for-readings

the modern situation

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~gidoretto/courses/2011-fall-cp/reading/TheUnreasonable%20EffectivenessofData_IEEE_IS2009.pdf

Norvig vs. Chomsky

Norvig responds to Chomsky's keynote from the At the Brains, Minds, and Machines symposium: http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

Transcript of Chomsky's talk: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/PinkerChomskyMIT.html

History

As We May Think

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think by Vannevar Bush.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/3881/

The Warren Weaver Translation Memo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Weaver#The_.22Translation.22_memorandum

http://www.mt-archive.info/Weaver-1949.pdf

learn more linguistics

Mike Gasser's How Language Works

http://www.indiana.edu/~hlw/index.html

informative comics

About language modeling: http://wondermark.com/894/

semantics: http://wondermark.com/887/