SI485i - Natural Language Processing - Fall 2012

Your Instructor

Asst Prof Nate Chambers
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Office hours: MI 324. Stop in anytime or make an appointment to be assured of availability. Research day is Tuesday.

Your Course Information

	Calendar and Assignments
	Course Policy
	Final Project Guidelines
	Project Report Template [.docx] [.pdf]

Textbooks

• Required: Speech and Language Processing. Jurafsky and Martin. Second Edition; Prentice Hall, 2008. (ISBN-13: 978-0131873216)
• Optional: Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schütze. 1999. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press.
• Optional: James Allen. 1995. Natural Language Understanding. Benjamin/Cummings, 2ed.

Useful Language Resources

• A Gentle Review of Basic Probability
• List of Part of Speech Tags
• Pseudocode for the CKY parsing algorithm
• WordNet: the most widely used ontology of English words
• List of English stop words

Popular Applications of NLP

• Google Flu Trends
• USNA's very own 'Mood of the Nation'
• Apple's Siri
• Google Translate
• Search Engine 'Related Searches' bar

NLP Courses Across Academia

• Johns Hopkins
• UMD
• Cornell
• Colorado
• Utah
• Stanford
• Berkeley (go Cardinal!)