9/23 firsties overview * NSF [Meredith, Judith, Alex] 9/30 * the web as corpus [Ben and Austin] 10/7 * Classics of Information Theory [Alison and Matt] * computational vs algorithmic * marr * Brad Love 10/14 * marginalization problem * Vik Rao? [Flo] * Ben: papers from the 60s "probabilistic counting" * Bayesian "problem" (UCSD) of Exemplar models (Schütze) 10/21 * Beaver: comm. sign. & prominence * BiOT: Jaeger, van Rooij misc * competitive queueing * Dell refers to this * Kids, aphasics, L2 acquisition * omission * variation * Brad Mahon * discriminative (perceptron) training of target-language grammars (for MT)