Suggested pre-readings
In this section you can find an annotated list of publications that we advise the participants to read before the start of the atelier.
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Luc Steels. Evolving grounded communication for robots. Trends in Cognitive Science. 7(7), July 2003, pp. 308--312.
A good introductory paper on modeling language evolution.
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Laura Michaelis (in press). Construction Grammar. In: K. Brown (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd edition, Oxford: Elsevier.
A good introductory paper on Construction Grammar theories.
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Steels, Luc and Joachim De Beule (2006). A (very) brief introduction to Fluid Construction Grammar. In: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding (ScaNaLu), June 8, New York City. ACL Conference: New York.
An introductory paper on the computational grammar formalism that will be taught and used at the atelier.
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Peter Seibel. Practical Common Lisp. Berkely: Apress.
Best-selling Lisp book of today and available for free online. Gives a good impression of the power of Common Lisp and is a fun read. We suggest that you take an extra good look at the two chapters on CLOS, which will be used a lot in the framework that is offered by the atelier.
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Gerard Weber. ELM-ART. An Interactive Online Lisp Tutorial.
This free online and interactive Lisp Tutorial is a must for everyone who is new to Common Lisp. It gets you familiar with Lisp's data types and notation.