Linguistics 420
Statistical Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Spring 2006

Welcome to Statistical NLP! For this course, the following links should be very useful:

Course information

The course syllabus, which includes the schedule and links to course notes!

Programming links

The Python homepage

• The Python Tutorial by Guido van Rossum serves as an excellent introduction to Python

The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) homepage

• The tutorials are also very useful

Information about SSH, from UIS at Georgetown

More information

The companion website to the Manning and Schütze book

A paper by Steven Abney, Statistical Methods and Linguistics

An Information Theory primer by Thomas D. Schneider