RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE (ADVANCED) / Kognitionsforskning II

MA in IT and Cognition. Tuesdays 1PM in Room 24.01.07. Teacher: Anders Søgaard. Exam: synopsis (oral).

The course presents a variety of research topics in cognitive science tailored for computational experiments. Contact: soegaard at hum.ku.dk.

Lecture plan

Sep 7. Introduction; Guest lecture on sign language: Prof. Elisabeth Engberg Pedersen.

Sep 14. Sign recognition (1/4). Generative models: from Bayes to HMMs. Literature: Hienz et al. (1999); Pashaloudi and Margaritis (2003). [Video]

Sep 21. State-of-the-art in sign recognition (six years ago). Literature: Loeding et al. (2004). Exercise: Run NB and HMM on dataset of your own choice and email results to everyone. Student presentation: Hienz et al. (1999) by Anders [Slides].

Sep 28. Cancelled.

Oct 5. Cancelled.

Oct 12. Discriminative models: from maxent to CRFs. Literature: Sutton and McCallum (intro). Experiments: Classification dataset: Sign language recognition (below). HMM dataset: POS/neural net clusters. Literature: Marsland (2009), Sect. 15.3. [Video] Exercise: 1-page essay on thesis topic. Student presentation: Pashaloudi and Margarities (2003).

Oct 19. Vacation.

Oct 24. Bringing it all together. Literature: Elmezain et al. (2007), Liwicki and Everingham (2009) [Video].

Nov 2. Cancelled.

Nov 9. Cancelled.

Nov 16. Sentiment analysis (1/3). Literature: Introduction, Sharifi and Cohen (2008).

Nov 23. Sentiment analysis (2/3). Literature: Wilson et al. (2009), ...

Nov 30. Sentiment analysis (3/3): Programming exercises.

Dec 7. Exam prep.

Software

Python script, HMM, Viterbi: hmm.py

NLTK: nltk.org

Marsland's code: Marsland's site

SVM-HMM: Joachim's site

GHMM: ghmm.org

CRF++: crfpp.sourceforge.net

Data sets

Australian sign language recognition from data glove coordinates. [Obtain] Adam subset for Rapidminer can be found here. Also read this paper which applies nearest neighor and decision trees to the dataset

American Sign Language Lexicon Video Dataset [Obtain]

Optical digit recognition. [Obtain]

Letter image recognition. [Obtain]

Deterding vowel recognition. [Obtain]

Sentiment analysis (movies). [Obtain]

Sentiment analysis (Amazon). [Obtain]

Sentiment analysis (MQPA; multiple resources). [Obtain]