• (04/09/2009) Deadline for the last critical review is: April, 27
• (03/13/2009) Deadline for the third critical review is: April, 10
• (03/13/2009) The second programming assignment is distributed: syntactic Parsing and Semantic Role Labeling with Dependency Graph Representation , Deadline: April, 6 (intermediate status report: Mar, 24)
• (02/10/2009) The first programming assignment is distributed: verb prediction: language modeling vs. classification, Deadline: February, 25
• (02/10/2009) The second critical review is due March, 6
• (02/02/2009) Requirements to critical reviews are now available here
• (01/29/2009) There was some confusion about which papers can be selected for presentation in class, the constraints are
  • the paper should be from the additional recommended reading lists
  • there will be not more than one presentation after each lecture (each day), so see how many days are assigned to the associated topic (some topics are covered in more than 1 lecture), and see how many papers are already taken for presentation (I try to keep this info up-to-date
  Please let me know about you choice (one presentation for the moment) at least by next Wednesday (February 4). Papers for critical surveys should also be selected from the additional recommended readings. You can (and encouraged to) select at least 1 or 2 papers from the set selected for presentation in class by other students. In this case you have to submit the survey before the presentation (even if the deadline is later). Deadline for the first survey is February, 13.
• (01/22/2009) Office hours are added to the Course Information page

 

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Books

Recommended books:

• Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing , 2nd Edition, 2008
• Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schutze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing , MIT Press 1999
• Eugene Charniak, Statistical Language Learning, MIT Press 1993
• Frederick Jelinek, Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press 1998
• Steve Young and G. Bloothooft (Eds), Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing, Kluwer
• James Allen, Natural Language Understanding, Addison-Wesley