University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science

Computer Science 2501 / 485
Computational Linguistics
Fall 2009

This course will follow the undergraduate calendar and hence start on Wednesday 9 September.

Course bulletin board: https://csc.cdf.toronto.edu/bb/YaBB.pl?board=CSC485-2501H1F

Instructor: Graeme Hirst.
E-mail: HisTwoInitials@cs.toronto.edu, with the string "2501" or "485" in the subject line.

Teaching assistant: TBA Chris Parisien.
E-mail: HisFirstName@cs.toronto.edu, with the string "2501" or "485" in the subject line.

Announcements

02 Nov 2009: Here are some code fragments for Assignment 4: Asst4-code-fragments.py

15 Oct 2009: Here are the files for Assignment 3:
Question 2: Miller-and-Charles pairs
Question 3: pp-corpus, wordlist

Textbooks

Strongly recommended: Jurafsky, Daniel, and Martin, James H. Speech and Language Processing, 2nd edition, 2009.

Remarkably useful: Bird, Steven; Klein, Ewan, Loper, Edward. Natural Language Processing with Python, O'Reilly, 2009. Free HTML version. If you order this book directly from O'Reilly you can get 30% off by quoting discount code ABF09 (offer expires 31-Dec-2009).

Possibly helpful: Mertz, David. Text Processing in Python. Addison-Wesley, 2003. Free ascii version.

Optional: Allen, James. Natural Language Understanding, 2nd Edition. Benjamin/Cummings, 1995.


Last modified, 02 Nov 2009. Comments, complaints, compliments, and reports of broken links to Graeme Hirst at the address above.