Lectures on Statistical NLP

last update 07/12/2004 09:22

Topic  Lecture Slides See Also

Statistics I

The Empirical Approach

[PDF]
bullet Manning & Schutze ch 1

Statistics II

Fundamental Concepts
in Probability

[PDF]
bullet Krenn & Samuelson (1997): Linguist's Guide to Statistics [PDF]

Statistics III

Spelling Correction

  1. [PDF]
  2. [PPT]
bullet Jurafsky & Martin Ch. 5.3-5.5
bullet Kernighan et al (1990) [PDF]

Statistics IV
Minimum Edit Distance

[PDF]

26/11/2004*

bullet

Jurafsky & Martin Ch. 5

 

Statistics V
Word Decoding Forward/Viterbi Algorithms
[PDF]

01/12/2004*

Statistics VI

N-Grams

[PDF]
bullet Jurafsky and Martin Ch 6.2

Statistics VII

Smoothing

[PDF]

07/12/2004*

bullet Jurafsky and Martin Ch 6.3
bullet Church & Gale (1994) What's wrong with adding one? [PDF]
Unix Tools for Empirical CL [PPT]
bullet Ken Church, Unix for Poets [PDF]