Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

This is the companion website for the following book.

Chris Manning and Hinrich Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press. Cambridge, MA: May 1999.

Interested in buying the book? Some more information about the book and sample chapters are available.

If you are here to look up something that is mentioned in the book, click on the appropriate chapter link below.

A list of errata is also available. Please send us any corrections, and get to see your name in lights!

We'd be pleased to get feedback about how this book works out as a textbook, what is missing, or covered in too much detail, or what is simply wrong. Please send any feedback or comments to cmanning@acm.org or hinrich@hotmail.com.

Chapters

1. Introduction
2. Mathematical Foundations
3. Linguistic Essentials
4. Corpus-Based Work
5. Collocations
6. Statistical Inference: n-gram Models over Sparse Data
7. Word Sense Disambiguation
8. Lexical Acquisition
9. Markov Models
10. Part-of-Speech Tagging
11. Probabilistic Context Free Grammars
12. Probabilistic Parsing
13. Statistical Alignment and Machine Translation
14. Clustering
15. Topics in Information Retrieval
16. Text Categorization

Other resources

• Useful Sites (including Manning's StatNLP resources)
• Big pile of slides related to the book [Note: These are old, not well edited, and have many duplicates, but are provided in case they are useful.]

Courses using the book

Some courses that have used this book are the following (we're happy to be told of others!).

USA

UPenn CIS530, UPenn CIS639, Berkeley SIMS 296a-4, BYU CS479, Johns Hopkins: current (Eisner) and previous [lots of great slides by Jan Hajic!], Brown CS241, CMU 11-682, CMU 11-761, Stanford CS224N, Oregon Graduate Institute CSE580, Ohio State, U Chicago, Purdue [lots of slides], Tufts, Minnesota 1, Minnesota 2, SUNY Albany, San Diego SU, Mississippi State, UCLA.

Canada

U Toronto CSC401, Concordia, Dalhousie U CSCI4152 [lots of slides!], U Alberta.

Europe

Edinburgh Cogsci MSc, Helsinki University of Technology TIK-61.182, Munich, Bochum. Götenborgs, Växjö University, University of Amsterdam, Warsaw University of Technology, Universidad Europea de Madrid - CEES.

Middle East

Arab Academy for Science & Technology and Marine Transport.

Asia

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan, IIT Delhi