LING 592: Statistics in Language Technology
Winter 2012
Eastern Michigan University
Office hours: TUE & THU 1-3:30 PM in Pray-Harrold; otherwise in Cooper (Language Technology Lab)
Syllabus (DRAFT) 01/10/2012
Literature
Shravan Vasishth and Michael Broe (2010) The Foundations of Statistics: A Simulation-based Approach. Springer. ISBN: 978-3-642-16312-8
Chris Manning and Hinrich Schütze (1999) Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press. Cambridge, MA. ISBN: 978-0262133609
Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin (2008) Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition. Second Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN: 978-0131873216
David MacKay (2003) Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0521642989
For an introduction to statistics the following books could be used:
Lloyd R. Jaisingh (2006) Statistics for the utterly confused. McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-0071461931
Deborah Rumsey (2011) Statistics for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-0470911082
Larry J. Stephens (2006) Schaum's outline of theory and problems of beginning statistics. Second edition. McGraw Hill Professional. ISBN: 978-0071459327
For material on R and statistical methods and research in linguistics, see R. Harald Baayen's home page, links and textbook.
R. Harald Baayen (2008) Analyzing Linguistic Data: A practical introduction to statistics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0521709187