Natural Language Processing - Fall 2017

Your Instructor

Assoc. Prof. Nate Chambers
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Office hours: MI 366. Stop in anytime or make an appointment to be assured of availability. Research day is Tuesday.

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.

Popular Applications of NLP

• Google Flu Trends
• USNA's very own 'Mood of the Nation'
• Apple's Siri
• Amazon's Echo
• IBM's Watson
• Google Translate
• Search Engine 'Related Searches' bar
• Swype Keyboard
• Amazon's Echo