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The Human Intelligence Enterprise: Spring 2008

FORSAN ET HAEC OLIM MEMINISSE IUVABIT

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Probabilistic models of language processing and acquisition, by Nick Chater and Christopher D. Manning

Assignment

On a total of one side of one sheet of paper, using 10 pt type or larger, with standard interline spacing and margins, respond to all the following.

A quad chart consists of a quadrant with

together with three quadrants with the following titles

Construct a quad chart for the work described by Chater and Manning. Use your imagination to concoct milestones for future work; try to include combinations of the ideas in the paper with other salient ideas in the subject. Use bracketed text to explain, if good slide technique leaves your meaning obscure otherwise.

Be absolutely sure your impact bullets are focused on practical applications, not scientific progress. Also, be sure your milestones are dated, detailed, and quantified.