E-learning

Language Processing

 (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-591j-language-processing-fall-2004)

Presented by

Pirada Petchngarm

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Department

There are a lot of departments in MIT OpenCourseWare.

I selected “Brain and Cognitive Sciences”.

Course There are many courses

in each department.

I selected “Language Processing” course.

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This course was taught by Prof. Edward Gibson in Fall 2004; it is appropriate for graduate level.

This course considers models of sentence and discourse 

comprehension from the linguistic, psychology, and artificial 

intelligence literature, including symbolic and connectionist 

models. Topics include ambiguity resolution and linguistic 

complexity; the use of lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, 

contextual and prosodic information in language 

comprehension; the relationship between the computational 

resources available in working memory and the language 

processing mechanism; and the psychological reality of 

linguistic representations. 

Syllabus

It shows the course requirements; 10% for discussion in class (students should have prepared the readings before attending class), 40% for four 3 page papers and an oral presentation for 20-30 minutes, and 50% for a final project/paper.

Calendar

Calendar specifies what the topic is taught in each period and assignments’ due dates: lecture 2, lecture 5, lecture 8 and lecture 10.

Readings

Because of no textbook for this course, there are name lists of books and journal sources in readings which students are assigned to read for each period.

Lecture Notes

There are 12 lecture notes as PDF which students can save to read.

Assignments

Assignments consist of four review papers, an oral presentation of one of these review papers, and a term project or paper.

Also, there are examples of review papers and term paper.

Download Course Materials

In addition, people who are interested in this course can download course material for convenience.

In my thoughts, e-learning is easily accessible; you just connect the 

internet and select the course you would like to study, therefore I 

believe it is the more convenient way for rural students to gain 

knowledge. However, if there is no teachers’ advice or e-learning user 

study by themselves at home, they have to be autonomous learners. 

For MIT OCW, I think it is useful for people who interested, learners or 

even teachers because there are a lot of beneficial courses in each 

department. As an English teacher, I will select some related courses 

to teach my students such as ‘language processing’. Apart from 

getting knowledge, my students can practice many skills, for example, 

to read the texts or materials -reading skill, to do the paper -thinking 

skills and to present in the class -speaking skill.