• (04/26/2011) The two final lectures are replaced by the two lectures in the CRA-W/CDC Distinguished lecture series on Monday and Tuesday 5/2-3, given by: Kathy McKeown and Corinna Cortes
• (04/26/2011) The two final student presentations will be on Wednesday, 4/27
• (04/26/2011) The last (long) critical review is due on May 4th.
• (03/10/2011) Due to EOH the lecture on Friday, 3/11 will be at 3405 SC.
• (02/17/2011) Critical paper reviews are due on Friday, 2/18.
• (01/15/2011) CS546 this semester will be a lecture/seminar class devoted to Structured Prediction and its application in NLP problems.
• (01/15/2011) The first meeting of the class is on Wednesday, 1/19/11, 1302 Siebel Center.

 

Course Information

Course Information

Handouts

Lecture Notes

Problem Sets

Books

Recommended books:
The class will be based mostly on papers that will be made available. The books are mentioned only for background reading

• 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