Syllabus - detailed selections from books

Book by book

Manning and Schütze: Foundations of Statistical Natural Language processing (FSNLP):

• Ch 1
• Ch 2:
  • Sec 2.1 except 2.1.10,
  • Subsec 2.2.0-2.2.1
• Ch 3
• Ch 4
• Ch 5, except 5.3.4
• Ch 6:
  • Introduction
  • Sec 6.1
  • Sec 6.2 except Sec. 6.2.4 and 6.2.6
• Ch 7, except 7.2.2 and 7.3-7.4
• Ch 8:
  • Sec 8.0-8.1
  • Sec 8.5
• Ch 12:
  • Sec 12.1.1-12.1.4
• Ch 15:
  • Sec 15.0-15.2.1
• Ch 16:
  • Sec 16.0-16.2, except 16.2.1

Bird, Klein and Loper: Natural Language Processing with Python (NLTK)

• Ch 1: Sec 1.1-1.3, 1.5
• Ch 2: Sec 2.1-2.2
• Ch 3: Sec 3.1-3.2
• Ch 6

Manning, Raghavan and Schütze: Introduction to Information Retrieval (IIR):

• Ch 13, except 13.2.1
• Ch 14: except the formal part of 14.6

Jurafsky and Martin: Speech and Language Processing (J&M)

• Ch 6: Sec. 6.6-6.8 (except 6.6.4)
• Ch 20: Sec 20.7