NLP course

I am thinking about the design of an undergrad course in Natural Language Processing.

Three textbooks or reference books:

• Survey of Human Language Technology
• NLTK book
• Kroeger's Analysis of Grammar

Some exercises:

Inferring genealogical trees from Ruhlen

1. use Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database for data
2. refer to Ethnologue to compare resulting trees
3. 
   

Book list, April. Draft 1

Actively reading during April:

Berners-Lee, Tim. Weaving the Web. Orion, 1999.


Planned for April

Pustejovsky, James. The Generative Lexicon. MIT, 1995.
target: finish ch 5-8.
Ruhlen, Merritt. The Origin of Language.
Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. Anchor, 1999.
target: finish or set aside to return to Noel


Finished:

Le Guin, Ursula K. The Birthday of the World and Other Stories. Gollancz, 2002