University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science

Computer Science 2501 / 485
Computational Linguistics
Fall 2008

This course will start on Wednesday 17 September. There will be no lectures in the first week of term.

Course bulletin board: https://csc.cdf.toronto.edu/bb/YaBB.pl?board=CSC485H1F

Instructor: Graeme Hirst.
E-mail: HisTwoInitials@cs.toronto.edu, with the string "2501" or "485" in the subject line.

Teaching assistant: TBA Chris Parisien.
E-mail: HisFirstName@cs.toronto.edu, with the string "2501" or "485" in the subject line.

Announcements

16 July 2008: Suggested reading before the first class: Chapter 1 of Jurafsky and Martin and chapter 1 of Bird, Klein, and Loper.

7 July 2008: Yes, Computational Linguistics will be offered in Fall 2008! If you are an undergrad, register for CSC 485; if you are a grad student, register for CSC 2501. But it's the same course either way.

The class will meet on Wednesdays, 1300-1500 (room TBA), and some (but not all) Thursdays, 1600-1700 (room TBA). Class meetings will be lectures, tutorials, or combinations of both, as necessary.

7 July 2008: This course will start on Wednesday 17 September. There will be no lectures in the first week of term.

Text books

Strongly recommended: Jurafsky, Daniel, and Martin, James H. Speech and Language Processing, 2nd edition, 2009.

Remarkably useful: Bird, Steven; Klein, Ewan, Loper, Edward. Natural Language Processing in Python, draft 0.9.3 or later, 2008. Free PDF or HTML version

Possibly helpful: Mertz, David. Text Processing in Python. Addison-Wesley, 2003. Free ascii version.

Optional: Allen, James. Natural Language Understanding, 2nd Edition. Benjamin/Cummings, 1995.