CS 5761 - Introduction to Natural Language Processing

READING ASSIGNMENTS - SPRING 2004
    
All reading should be completed during the week it is assigned.  Note that 
SLP refers to Speech and Language Processing by Jurafsky and Martin. Perl  
materials may be of your own choosing, although I make recommendations  
below. 

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Week 14 (ends May 2) :

A Plan for Spam, by Paul Graham 
http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

Better Bayesian Filtering, by Paul Graham 
http://www.paulgraham.com/better.html

SpamCop: A Spam Classification & Organization Program, by Pantel and Lin
http://www.isi.edu/~pantel/Download/Papers/aaai98.pdf

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Week 13 (ends Apr 25) :

no new reading

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Week 12 (ends Apr 18) :

SLP: Chapter 17

All students should try and use WordNet from command line
Those working on Google project should try CPAN module WordNet::QueryData 

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Week 11 (ends Apr 11) :

SLP: Chapter 16

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Week 10 (ends Apr 4) :

SLP: Chapter 8

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Week 9 (ends Mar 28) :

SLP: no new reading, review Chapters 1-6 for exam on Weds Mar 31. 

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Week 8 (ends Mar 14) :

SLP: no new reading

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Week 7 (ends Mar 7) :

SLP: Chapter 6.6 - 6.7

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Week 6 (ends Feb 29) :

SLP: Chapter 6.1 - 6.3

Get Google API http://www.google.com/apis

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Week 5 (ends Feb 22) :

SLP: Chapter 5.1 - 5.5

A Spelling Correction Program Based on a Noisy Channel Model, 
by Kernighan, Church, and Gale, 1990, Coling.

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Week 4 (ends Feb 15) :

SLP: Chapter 3

Perl: use of Text::English module (find at search.cpan.org)

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Week 3 (ends Feb 8) :

SLP: no new reading

Perl: Review hashes and file handling.

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Week 2 (ends Feb 1) :

SLP: Chapter 2

Perl: Learn how to use regular expression matching and substitution. 
Learning Perl and Programming in Perl are very good introductions. When 
you become more expert, Mastering Regular Expressions in Perl is a good 
source. Experiment with hashes too.

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Week 1 (ends Jan 25) : 

SLP: Chapter 1

Perl: Review introductory material from Learning Perl or Programming Perl. 
Make sure you are able to write simple Perl programs that use command  
line arguments and file i/o.

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