SLP148 Language and Computation
Weekly Readings
This page is still under construction. For your information, these were the readings that were allocated in 2007.
This page contains useful reading for each week. Make sure to read this page at least once a week and do the reading. Some of the reading will be available at e-Reserve.
Week 1
- Unit outline
- NLTK book, Chapter 2, "Programming Fundamentals and Python"
- NLTK book, Chapter 3, "Words", section 3.2
Week 2
- Palmer (2000). Tokenisation and Sentence Segmentation. Available in e-Reserve.
- NLTK book, Chapter 14, "Regular Expressions"
- Heidi Harley's book "English Words: A Linguistic Introduction" ,
Blackwell, 2006. To be added to e-Reserve.
- While we wait for the book to appear in e-Reserve, use this local copy (you need to login to WebCT).
Week 3
- Palmer (2000). Tokenisation and Sentence Segmentation. Available in e-Reserve.
- NLTK book, Chapter 14, "Regular Expressions"
- David Crystal "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language," Ch 33 on "Graphology". Available on e-Reserve.
Week 4
- Palmer (2000). Tokenisation and Sentence Segmentation. Available in e-Reserve.
Week 5
- The Porter Stemming Algorithm. Web resource available in e-Reserve.
Week 6
- Chapter 1 of Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze (2008). Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. Web resource available in e-Reserve.
Week 7
- Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page (1998). The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. Web resource available in e-Reserve.
Week 8
- Aitchison, J. (2003) Words in the Mind. Blackwell Publishing. Chapters 1-3.
Week 9
- Aitchison, J. (2003) Words in the Mind. Blackwell Publishing. Chapters 4-6.
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