Week 1

Lecture 1: Introduction & Looking at data

Presentation

Recordings: video | audio only

Recommended reading

• Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 2. ed., Ch. 1
• Wikipedia, "Natural Language Processing"
• Wikipedia, "Frequency (statistics)
• NLTK Book, sec. 1.3, 2.2

For the descriptive statistics part, any of the following will cover the lecture

• OpenIntro (3. ed.)1.1, 1.2.0- 1.2.2, 1.6.0-1.6.5, 1.7.0-1.7.2
• Nutshell: Ch. 4, "Descriptive Statistics and Graphical Displays", p. 83-120
• Moore and McCabe: Ch. 1, "Looking at Data - Distributions", sec. 1.1-1.2
• Cartoon Guide: Ch. (1-) 2, "Data Description"

Lab-session 1, Tuesday 27 August at Fortress

Program

• Solutions
• NLTK Book,
  • Ch. 1
  • Ch. 2: sec. 2.1-2.2
  • Ch. 3: sec. 3.2

Lab introduction