CS 674: Natural Language Processing

Most current edition of this course

This course presents an introduction to natural language processing (NLP), the study of human languages from a computational perspective, often motivated by engineering concerns. Possible topics include parsing algorithms, finite-state techniques, tree-adjoining grammars and related formalisms, part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, discourse analysis, machine learning of natural language, and machine translation. Also, the Federalist Papers, the Turing Test, and How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Swiss-German.

Prerequisites: elementary knowledge of probability.
Recommended: CS472, CS381/481, and/or linguistics courses.

• Instructor: Lillian Lee, 4152 Upson, 255-8119, . Office hours: MW 11-12 or by appointment
• Time and location: MW 10:10-11, Upson 5130 (we've moved!!!)
• Announcements: See the cornell.class.cs674 newsgroup.

• Lecture references: click here
• Handouts and other course info:
  • course information sheet (pdf version)
  • reaction essay info and READING LIST
  • Project information
  • Further presentation and final writeup instructions

• Other online resources:
  • Cornell Natural Language Processing Page
  • Cognitive Studies at Cornell. The colloquia and the proseminar talks are often relevant.

  • Cmp-lg | CoRR. The Computation and Language E-Print Archive is a handy repository for NLP papers, now subsumed by the Computing Research Repository.
  • [ dead link The reading list for CS287 at Harvard University contains on-line versions of many papers.]
  • Hutchins' bibliography contains online links to some historical MT papers.
  • Search engines: AltaVista | Google | Ask Jeeves (uses NLP)

  • WordNet. The famed lexical database.

  • Speech and Language Processing, by Daniel Jurafksy and James Martin: table of contents.
  • Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, companion website to Chris Manning and Hinrich Schütze's text.

  • ACL. The Association for Computational Linguistics is the main organization for people interested in NLP. A lot of links are available off the "universe".
  • Manning's list of resources
  • Kenji Kita's pages. A collection of empirical/statistical links. Also has an (idiosyncractic?) archive of papers.
  • Corpora list. Archive of postings.
  • NLP people (includes (slightly outdated) organization by region)

• Internship opportunities
  • Internships in NLP/machine learning at Microsoft Research (ask me for details)
  • Internships in human language technology at IBM Research (ask me for details)
  • Undergraduate Summer Workshop in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience Information and Application for Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing Summer 2000 Workshop (deadline nearly past ... )
  • NASA-Ames Summer Student Research Program (includes human-centered computing)
  • ATT Research labs question-answering system internship (ask me for details)

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Last updated 4/24/00