Topic List and Schedule
　

2/20		Course Overview & Introduction Linguistic Essentials	HW-1 Write a Chinese Input System (Due 4/2)
2/27		Linguistic Essentials
3/5		Mathematical Foundations, 朱惠銘
3/12		Mathematical Foundations, 朱惠銘 Part-of-Speech Tagging
3/19		Break (ICDAT 2004)
3/26		Collections, 張志豪
4/2		Part-of-Speech Tagging Parsing with Context-Free Grammars	HW-2 Write a HMM Tagger (the training phase should be included) (Due 4/30)
4/9		Break (Talk at NCKU)
4/16		N-gram Language Modeling,  黃耀民 Parsing with Context-Free Grammars
4/23		Midterm
4/30		Word Sense Disambiguation 劉成韋	HW-3 (Due 5/7)
5/7		Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars
5/14		Text Categorization 顏永泰
5/21		Break (ICASSP 2004)
5/28		Paper Survey
6/4		Statistical Alignment and Machine Translation
6/11
6/18		FINAL

Textbook: 

1.		D. Jurafsky and J. H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing, Prentice-Hall, 2000.
2.		C. Manning and H. Schutze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press, 1999.

References:
  Books:

1.		J. Allen, Natural Language Understanding, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co, 1995.
2.		X. Huang, A. Acero, H. Hon, Spoken Language Processing, Prentice Hall, 2001.

  Papers:

 Corpora:

1.		The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing

Grading:
     1. Midterm and Final: 40%
     2. Homework: 25%
     3. Project: 20%
     4. Attendance/Other: 15%