Readings listed in this section are from the required textbook:
Bird, S., E. Klein and E. Loper, Natural Language Processing with Python. (O’Reilly Media 2009) [ISBN 9780596516499; http://nltk.org/book].
| LEC# | Topic | Readings |
| 1 | Introducing NLP: patterns and structure in language | Steven Pinker (2007), The Language Instinct, Chapter 4. |
| 2 | Getting to grips with natural language data | Bird Chapters 1 and 2. |
| 3 | Computational tools for text analysis | Bird Chapters 3, 4 and 5. |
| 4 | Statistically-based techniques for text analysis | Bird Chapters 6 and 7. |
| 5 | Analysing sentenses: syntax and parsing | Bird Chapters 8 and 9. |