• (01/17/2016) Welcome to CS546
• (01/17/2016) CS546 this semester will be a lecture/seminar/projects class devoted to Structured Prediction and its application in NLP problems.
• (01/17/2016) The first meeting of the class is on Wednesday, 1/20/16, 1304 Siebel Center.
• (01/23/2016) Homework 0 has been released. It can be found here. It is due on 1/23/16 at 11:59 pm.

 

Course Information

Course Information

Handouts

Lecture Notes

Assignments

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