CSCE 3210 Symbolic Processing

Dr. Kathleen M. Swigger
F253 & Dean's office
kathy@cs.unt.edu

TA: Michael Mohler
Office Hours -- 2-6pm Wednesday. 1-3 on Tues.
email - mgm0038@unt.edu or elmigue1409@hotmail.com

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Franz Inc., offering a reasonably capable PC version of Allegro Common LISP for FREE.
Free LISP implementations GCL for Unix/Linux, or you may want to try Lispworks Free lisp.
Web-based symbolic integration in LISP.
Eliza alive and well on the web.
Free Prolog implementations.
Online tutorials

• LISP Tutorial by Ray Dougherty and Marc Schwarz of the NYU Natural Language Computing Project.
• Another Tutlorial
• Yet another Tutorial
• LISP Primer Collin Allen Maneesh Dhagat developed for students at Texas A&M.
• Jeff Dalton's CLOS Guide.

Lisp information

• COMMON COMMANDS OF LISP THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• Capturing Output
• Editing Lisp in VI
• Intro. to Emacs
• Emacs quick reference
• Free Lisp BOOKS -- this is Paul Graham's website. You might want to look around, because it has a lot of neat stuff about lisp.

Lectures

• Introduction to Course
• Introduction to Lisp
• Recursion & Iteration
• More Lisp
• Intro. Search
• Uniform Cost
• Arrays
• A lab about searching -- which may help you with the program
• A very good description of how to implement arrays in Lisp
• Heuristic Search
• A* Search
• Genetic Algorithms
• Intro. Games
• Games 2
• Knowledge-based systems (rules)
• Knowledge-based systems 2 (semantic nets & Objects)
• Objects
• Machine Learning
• Neural Networks

Assignments

• Lab 1
• Program 1
• Lab 2
• Lab 3
• Program 2 (The real program 2)
• Program 3 (Triplets)
• Lab 4
• Program 4
• Lab 5

Exams

• Exam 1 - Review
• Answers to review Exam
• A lab that describes how to manipulate property lists
• The Game Functions
• Exam 2 -review
• Exam 2 answers
• Search Example -- These were done for an AI course. Yours will not be as difficult
• Final Review
• Neural Network explanation