Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
This is the companion website for the following book.
Chris Manning and Hinrich Sch¨štze,
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press.
Cambridge, MA: May 1999.
Interested in buying the book? Some more information about the
book and sample chapters are available.
If you are here to look up something that is mentioned in the book, click on
the appropriate chapter link below.
A list of errata
is also available. Please send us any corrections, and get to see your name in
lights!
We'd be pleased to get feedback about how this book works out as a textbook,
what is missing, or covered in too much detail, or what is simply wrong. Please
send any feedback or comments to cmanning@acm.org or hinrich@hotmail.com.
Chapters
- Introduction
- Mathematical
Foundations
- Linguistic
Essentials
- Corpus-Based Work
- Collocations
- Statistical Inference:
n-gram Models over Sparse Data
- Word Sense
Disambiguation
- Lexical Acquisition
- Markov Models
- Part-of-Speech
Tagging
- Probabilistic Context
Free Grammars
- Probabilistic
Parsing
- Statistical Alignment
and Machine Translation
- Clustering
- Topics in Information
Retrieval
- Text Categorization
Useful
Sites
Some courses that have used this book are the following (we're happy to be
told of others!).
- USA
- UPenn CIS530, UPenn CIS639, Berkeley
SIMS 296a-4, Johns Hopkins: current (Eisner) and previous
[lots of great slides by Jan Hajic!], Brown CS241, CMU 11-682, CMU 11-761, Stanford CS224N, MIT 6.863, Oregon Graduate Institute
CSE580, Ohio
State, U
Chicago, Purdue [lots of
slides], Tufts, Minnesota,
SUNY Albany,
San Diego SU, Mississippi
State.
- Canada
- U Toronto CSC401, Dalhousie U
CSCI4152 [lots of slides!], U Alberta.
- Europe
- Edinburgh
Cogsci MSc, Helsinki
University of Technology TIK-61.182, Munich,
Bochum.
Götenborgs, Växjö
University, University
of Amsterdam, Universidad
Europea de Madrid - CEES
- Asia
- Pohang University
of Science and Technology (POSTECH), National
Cheng-chi University, Taiwan, IIT Delhi
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