Spring 2026
Details: Syllabus (tentative)
Time and Place: TuTh 1:30, CCSB 1.0202
Instructor: Nigel Ward, Office Hours: We 2:30-3:30, Fr 12:45-1:45
Teaching Assistant: Marcel de Korte, Office Hours: Mo 1:30-2:30, Th 9:30-10:30
Textbook: Speech and Language Processing, 3rd Edition, draft
Other Core Readings: Introduction to Information Retrieval, by Manning, Raghavan and Schutze; The Technology behind Personal Digital Asistants: An Overview of the System Architecture and Key Components. Ruhi Sarikaya, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Jan 2017 pp 67-81.
Other Recommended Readings Practical Natural Language Processing, by Vajjala, Majumender, Gupta and Surana; Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analaysis, by Bo Pang and Lillian Lee
Related Class: Andrew Maas's Spoken Language Processing Course at Stanford
Sample Tests: 2018 Test 1, 2018 Test 2, 2018 Final Exam, 2023 Final Exam