Natural Language Processing
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Introduction to Natural Language Processing
CMPSCI 585 — Fall 2007
Textbook & Resources
Required book (reading online version is fine):
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Jurafsky and Martin "Speech and Language Processing" Prentice Hall; (January 26, 2000) ISBN: 0130950696 |
Second edition is available online.
Recommended book :
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Lutz and Ascher "Learning Python" O'Reilly ISBN: 0596002815 |
Additional sources of interest :
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Manning and Schutze "Statistical Natural Language Processing" MIT Press; 1st edition (June 18, 1999) ISBN: 0262133601 |
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:
Python Introduction for Linguists (NLTK)
Python for Linguists (from class at BrynMawr)
Python for Linguists New to Programming (University of Georgia)
A quick Introduction to Python (mainly for those who know how to program)
Python for Computer Scientists
Also, see the official Python web site
The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK):