Resources

Instructor

Assoc. Prof. Nate Chambers, Hopper Hall 442, x36838

Course Policy

The official course policy.

Textbook

• Required: (available for free online) Speech and Language Processing. Jurafsky and Martin. Third Edition
• 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.

Use Ubuntu through Windows WSL

Instead of a VM, you can use WSL on Windows...it's actually quite nice!

We have instructions to setup your Windows environment. Ignore the part about installing Atom (unless you want it). If your computer is wiped by ITSD and needs a fresh setup, just redo the steps.

Use your Ubuntu VM

Feel free to use your VM from prior classes. It's up to you!

If you need to reinstall a fresh one, follow these instructions.

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 (NLTK python toolkit)
• Deeper Introduction to Maximum Entropy Classification
• Stanford's CoreNLP toolkit of NLP software
• NLTK for Python

NLP Courses Across Academia

• Berkeley
• Colorado
• Cornell
• Johns Hopkins
• Stanford
• Univ of Pennsylvania
• UT Austin
• Utah