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

Course information

The preliminary syllabus, which will include links to course notes.

The links below may give you some insight into what we'll be doing in the course, but they'll be more useful once you're actually in the course.

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 documentation is 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