Jason Hutchens: phd

Introduction

This is the companion Web site to Jason Hutchens' PhD thesis. On this Web site you can find the corpora mentioned in the thesis, most of the technical reports, theses, conference papers and technical presentations cited in chapter 8 of the thesis, and links to other Web sites of interest.

Download PhD Thesis

• The UpWrite Predictor: A General Grammatical Inference Engine for Symbolic Time Series, with Applications in Natural Language Acquisition and Data Compression (480Kb), PDF Version (1320Kb)

Corpora

• Calgary Corpus (1048Kb)
• Canterbury Corpus (722Kb)
• Sherlock Corpus (1274Kb)
• Probert E-Text Encyclopaedia Extract (4Kb)

Honours Thesis

• Natural Language Grammatical Inference (160Kb)

Conference Papers

• Language Acquisition and Data Compression (44Kb)
• Finding Structure via Compression (30Kb)
• Introducing MegaHAL (30Kb)
• Conversing with Stochastic Language Models (80Kb)
• Introducing the UpWrite Predictor (90Kb)
• Insights into the Problem of Syntactic Category Acquisition (50Kb)

Technical Reports

• Extensions to the PPM Data Compression Scheme (currently unavailable)
• A Hybrid PPM/LZ Data Compression Scheme (39Kb)
• A Goal-Oriented Language Model (43Kb)
• Results of Online Language Experiments (currently unavailable)
• Insights into the Problem of Syntactic Category Acquisition (currently unavailable)
• The NonI Conversation Simulator (36Kb)
• Finding Chunks in Symbolic Time Series (59Kb)

Research Reports

• Grammatical Inference and The UpWrite Predictor (54Kb)
• Grammatical Inference: What I Think (36Kb)
• Jason's Travels (39Kb)
• Adding a Dynamic Dictionary to PPM (24Kb)
• Does Chunking Work? (24Kb)
• The Chunk Compressor (21Kb)
• Future Directions (23Kb)

Technical Presentations

• Grammatical Inference: A Magical Mystery Tour (52Kb)
• How to Pass the Turing Test by Cheating (52Kb)
• Text Compression and Language Modelling (36Kb)
• Grammatical Inference (Pure and Simple) (22Kb)
• Finding Chunks in Symbolic Time Series (17Kb)
• NonI: A Non-Intelligent Conversation Simulator (23Kb)
• Why Doesn't my Computer Understand Me? (22Kb)