There is an advisory deadline of 6pm Friday 10th March, but a hard deadline of 6pm on Thursday 16th March. If you have a good reason for needing an extension please request it in good time. You should submit your answers to me,either electronically or otherwise. You are called as a neuropsychological expert witness in a court case. An unsigned typewritten confession has been found at the scene of the crime.
Medical records reveal that the defendant has the disease.
Briefly explain to the judge why neither defence nor prosecution should be trusted in this matter. Using the knowledge of statistical NLP which you have acquired in this course, prepare a one page research proposal for a project addressing a linguistic problem of your choice. Your proposal should be as specific as you can make it - precise enough that is clear what you propose to do and why, and the connection to material covered in the course should be made clear. If you want to, and you have space, you can include a less precisely specified idea as further work, but you should concentrate primarily on one well grounded proposal. The noisy channel model.