Ted Pedersen - NLP at UMD

NLP at UMD

We meet regularly to review the progress of students who are working on theses, and to discuss general issues that relate to Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics.

We have a mailing list. Anyone is welcome to join and participate. This is where all group announcements will appear, so please make sure you are subscribed if you are one of my current students.

One of our most basic goals is for each student to finish an MS thesis or project. To help that just a little bit, here is a Latex template that should help you follow the official UMN formatting guidelines for theses and projets.

Current and Former Students

A Few of Our Favorite Things

The ACL Anthology for papers
Perl for programming
Perl Data Language for scientific programming
Weka for machine learning
WordNet for word meanings
Ngram Statistics Package for finding interesting sequences of words
SenseClusters for discovering word senses and identifying similar contexts
WordNet::Similarity for finding similar concepts

Why Open Source/Free Software?

Free as in Freedom (biography of Richard Stallman)
The Cathedral and the Bazaar (a manifesto of sorts)
Open Source versus Free Software (they aren't the same...)

NLP Classes at UMD

Intro to NLP undergraduate class at UMD, fall 2007
NLP graduate class at UMD, fall 2004
Intro to NLP undergraduate class at UMD, spring 2004
NLP graduate class at UMD, fall 2002
Intro to NLP undergraduate class at UMD, spring 2002
Corpus Based NLP graduate class at UMD, spring 2001

By: Ted Pedersen - tpederse AT d umn edu