Literature

Here we list some pointers to resources that may be helpful to you during the course. We will extend this list as the course progresses.

Books

The following books are standard textbooks on computational linguistics. Most computational linguists own a copy of each. We will frequently assign reading material from these books.

• Dan Jurafsky and James Martin, Speech and Language Processing. This is a gentle and broad-coverage introductory text, which covers more topics than the course, but does not always go into as much detail. It seems that the Second Edition is out of print; you can find the official draft of the Third Edition here.
• Chris Manning and Hinrich Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. This is a more technical introduction to statistical methods in computational linguistics, and provides background reading on some of the techniques we discuss.

Both books are also available in the Computer Science library.