Course Materials

Textbooks

• Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
  Chris Manning and Hinrich Schütze (1999)
• Introduction to Linguistic Annotation and Text Analytics
  Graham Wilcock (to appear)

Topics

1. Linguistic Annotation
   (Penn Treebank, WordFreak)
2. Maximum Entropy Models
   (OpenNLP MaxEnt)
3. Part-of-Speech Tagging
   (OpenNLP Tagger, Stanford Tagger)
4. Statistical Parsing
   (OpenNLP Parser, Stanford Parser)
5. Chunking
   (CoNLL-2000, OpenNLP Chunker)
6. Annotation Architectures
   (GATE, UIMA)
7. Further Topics: Named Entity Recognition
   (CoNLL-2003, OpenNLP Name Finder)

© 2007-2008 Graham Wilcock