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From: copperma@grenoble.rxrc.xerox.com (Max Copperman)
Subject: Re: Q: Teaching material for statistical CL
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References: <CHRISBR.95Jun19142139@blair.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 20:33:38 GMT
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The March 1995 issue of Computational Linguistics has a review of "Statistical
Language Learning" that speaks directly to its suitability as a text
and to the question of what supplementary material would be needed.
The review is not glowing, and suggests that supplementary material
would be important.

Regards,

Max Copperman

In article <CHRISBR.95Jun19142139@blair.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, chrisbr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Chris Brew) writes:
> In article <DA9pGn.K5B@news.gu.se> Joakim Nivre <joakim> writes:
> 
>    Dear all,
> 
>    I am going to develop a course on statistical methods and models
>    in computational linguistics using Eugene Charniak's book "Statistical
>    Language Learning". I would be very grateful for advice concerning:
> 
>    1. Supplementary literature, especially for the mathematical background,
>       probability theory, etc., but also for applications.
> 
>    2. Material for practical exercises, mini-projects, etc., both written
>       documentation and software if available.
> 
>    I'd be happy to post a summary if there is interest.
> 
>    Best regards,
> 
>    Joakim Nivre
> 
>    Department of Linguistics
>    G=F6teborg University
>    E-mail: joakim@ling.gu.se
> I have been doing the same sort of thing in a small way, and have put
> some preliminary materials on http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~chrisbr/charniak.html
> These will be undergoing further development in the coming weeks, and I'd
> welcome constructive feedback:
> 
> What there is is: 
> 
> 1) a small corpus and Prolog program for generating it. The idea
> is that people try out the techniques in Charniak, and the
> design principle for my program was that it should produce
> something as English-like as possible using a tiny
> vocuabulary and a very simple domain.
> 
> 2) Some simple programs written in Unix shell and AWK, designed
> to show how to calculate entropy and the like.
> 
> 3) A few paragaphs of introduction to Chapters 1 and 2 of Charniak.
> 
> I'd be interested in anything else people have in this area. I am
> replying immediately, even though I feel that what I have is
> unfinished. I hope others will do the same, since I think the
> need for tutorial material in this area is urgent.
> 
> Chris
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