Dates correct for 2012 - lecture content/order may however be varied.
Some of these notes are in PDF or Postscript format. If you are unfamiliar with these formats, see the bottom of this page.
| Green background means up-to-date for 2012. |
| Pale green background means not yet updated for 2012. |
| Purple background means the material is for COMP9814 students, and up-to-date for 2012. |
| Light purple background means the material is for COMP9814 students, not up-to-date for 2012. |
| Week | Lecture Date | Topic | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O- week | no lecture |
Course Introduction (html). Read this in O-week. If you have questions, email or phone them to the Course Coordinator | |||||
| 27 Feb 2012
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Intro to Artificial Intelligence (print off a copy if desired) | Introduction to Prolog Programming (print off a copy before 1st lecture) | |||||
| 2 Mar 2012 | Extension Prolog Notes (weeks 2-3) (html) | ||||||
| 5 Mar 2012
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Prolog programming continued, plus
Rules and
Semantic Nets & Frames | | |||||
| 9 Mar 2012 | Extension Prolog continued | ||||||
| 12 Mar 2012
| Problem Solving and Search (ps slides)
(pdf slides) | Uninformed Search (ps slides) (pdf slides) (print off copies of the lecture notes and the exercise sheet for Week 3) Depth first search in Prolog Breadth first search in Prolog 8 Puzzle in Prolog | |||||
| 16 Mar 2012 | Class cancelled | ||||||
| 19 Mar 2012
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Machine Learning:
Error Backpropagation Learning (html) | Machine Learning: Decision Tree Induction (ID3) (html) | |||||
| 23 Mar 2012 | Interactive Activation and Competition Networks (html) | ||||||
| 26 Mar 2012
| Informed Search (ps slides)
(pdf slides)
A* search in Prolog
| Intelligent Agents (ps slides) (pdf slides) Assignment 2 (ps) (pdf) | |||||
| 30 Mar 2012 | Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Russell & Norvig: Chapters 6, 4.1) | ||||||
| 2 Apr 2012
| Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (ps slides)
(pdf slides) | Propositional Logic: Automated Reasoning (ps slides) (pdf slides) Background reading from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Sections 1-4) (also print off the exercise sheet for Week 5) | |||||
| 6 Apr 2012 | Public holiday for Good Friday - no lecture | ||||||
| Break | 9-13 April 2012 | Mid-session break week - no lectures | |||||
| 16 Apr 2012
| First-Order Logic (ps slides)
(pdf slides) | Logic and Prolog (ps slides) (pdf slides) (also print off the exercise sheet for Week 6) | |||||
| 20 Apr 2012 | Axiom Systems for Propositional Logic (ps slides) (pdf slides) | ||||||
| 23 Apr 2012
| Reasoning Under Uncertainty (ps slides)
(pdf slides) | (also print off the exercise sheet for Week 7) | |||||
| 27 Apr 2012 | Logic Programming and Resolution (Handouts supplied) | ||||||
| 30 Apr 2012
| Intro to Natural Language Processing + Syntax (pdf) | Grammars and Parsing (pdf) | |||||
| 4 May 2012 | The Monty Hall Problem (Handouts supplied) | ||||||
| 7 May 2012
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Features and Augmented Grammars (html) | Logical Form (html) | |||||
| 11 May 2012 | Extension: Ambiguity Resolution - Statistical Methods (html) (weeks 9-10) | ||||||
| 14 May 2012
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Semantic Interpretation (html)
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| 18 May 2012 | Ambiguity Resolution continued | ||||||
| 21 May 2012
| Revision:
Revision exercises/sample exam questions (html) for material lectured by Bill. | Exam cover sheet 25 May 2012 |
Extension revision exercises/sample exam questions (html) for material
lectured by Bill.
| 13 | | No lectures in week 13, but the nlp assignment is due on the Friday (and extnlp for COMP9814).
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| Purple background means the material is for COMP9814 students. |
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