Language and Computation (LING 227/627)
Reading list from Jurafsky and Martin, 2nd ed.


  (...to be continuously updated... -- not anymore!)


Post-readings (must be understood and learned):

 Chapter 1 (entire chapter)
 Chapter 2 (entire chapter)
 Chapter 3 (entire chapter)
 Chapter 4: intro, 4.1-4.3, 4.5.intro, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.8, 4.12
 Chapter 5: intro, 5.1-5.4, 5.5
 Chapter 6: intro, 6.1-6.5
 Chapter 9: intro, 9.1-9.2, 9.5-9.6
 Chapter 11 (entire chapter)
 Chapter 13 (entire chapter)
 Chapter 14: intro, 14.1-14.4, 14.10
 Chapter 16 (entire chapter)
 Chapter 17: intro, 17.1-2
 Chapter 18: intro, 18.1-2 (cf. assignment 4; overlook the lambda calculus if you haven't learned it elsewhere)
 Chapter 19: intro, 19.1-3
 Chapter 20: intro, 20.1, as well as first half of 20.7.3
 Chapter 21: intro, 21.3-5

 + In general: summary chapters, as much as they pertain to the sections that are required.


Superficial reading (introduction, NLP tasks and problems, main concepts, without technical details):

 Chapter 22
 Chapter 23
 Chapter 24
 Chapter 25


Background reading (know what it is about, know the general ideas, know what to look up where):

 Chapter 7
 Chapter 8
 Chapter 9: sections 9.3-9.4, 9.7-9.8
 Chapter 17: 17.3-6

 ... as well as the "Bibliographical and Historical Notes" of the chapters discussed.


This course does not cover:

 Chapter 6: 6.6-6.8 (MaxEnt models)
 Chapter 10 (advanced topics in ASR)
 Chapter 15 (unification grammars; although why not have a look at them)
 Chapter 18: 18.3-18.6
 Chapter 19: intro, 19.4-6
 Chapter 20: 20.2-10 (with the exception of 20.7.3)

Still to come:

 Selected topics in Part IV and Part V of the book