Introduction to Natural Language Processing

CMPSCI 585
Fall 2004

Textbook & Resources

Required book :

Manning and Schutze "Statistical Natural Language Processing" MIT Press; 1st edition (June 18, 1999) ISBN: 0262133601

Additional sources of interest :

Jurafsky and Martin "Speech and Language Processing" Prentice Hall; 1st edition (January 26, 2000) ISBN: 0130950696

James Allen. Natural Language Understanding. The Benajmins/Cummings Publishing Company Inc. 1994. ISBN 0-8053-0334-0.

Tom Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill, 1997. ISBN 0070428077

Cover, T. M. and J. A. Thomas: Elements of Information Theory. Wiley. 1991. ISBN 0-471-06259-6.

Charniak, E.: Statistical Language Learning. The MIT Press. 1996. ISBN 0-262-53141-0.

Jelinek, F.: Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition. The MIT Press. 1998. ISBN 0-262-10066-5.

Programming Resources:

NLP Code and Data resources, including some examples in Java.

Eric Brill's short guide to Perl.

An overview of UNIX tools for text.