"Whenever you can, count." (Francis Galton)
Tutorials
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A Tutorial on the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm Including
Maximum-Likelihood Estimation and EM Training of Probabilistic
Context-Free Grammars. Presented at the 15th European Summer
School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-03). (pdf,
49 pages)
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A Short Tutorial on the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm. In
Course Notes on CD of the 15th European Summer School in Logic,
Language and Information (ESSLLI-03). (pdf,
25 pages)
The first tutorial covers a substantial part of the lecture notes of a
foundational course on statistical natural language processing
(statistical NLP). The course was given at an international summer
school in 2003 and it was sponsored by the European Chapter of the
Association for Computaional Linguistics (EACL). The short tutorial is
linguistic-free but contains all the non-linguistic stuff of the
longer version. Both versions are still under revision and comments are
welcome! [Old versions can be found here.]
Courses
2007
Detlef Prescher.
Introduction to Statistical Natural Language Processing.
Computational Linguistics Dep., University of Heidelberg.
Summer 2007.
Detlef Prescher.
Introduction to Statistical Parsing.
Computational Linguistics Dep., University of Heidelberg.
Summer 2007.
Detlef Prescher.
Introduction to Machine Translation.
Computational Linguistics Dep., University of Heidelberg.
Summer 2007.
Matthias Hartung and Detlef Prescher.
Software Projects.
Computational Linguistics Dep., University of Heidelberg.
Summer 2007.
2006
Khalil Sima'an, Detlef Prescher.
Unsupervised
Statistical Estimation for Natural Language Processing.
ILLC,
University of Amsterdam.
Spring 2006.
2005
Detlef Prescher.
On the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for
Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars.
[A block of guest lectures in Khalil Sima'an's course on Probabilistic Grammars
and DOP.]
ILLC, University of Amsterdam.
Spring 2005.
See also
Jelle Zuidema etal.
Computational
Linguistics Seminar.
ILLC, University of Amsterdam.
Winter 2004/05.
2004
Detlef Prescher, Remko Scha, Khalil Sima'an.
Probabilistic
Grammars and Data-Oriented Parsing.
ILLC, University of Amsterdam.
Spring 2004.
See also
Yoav Seginer etal.
Reading Group on Natural Language Learning.
ILLC, University of Amsterdam.
Winter 2004/05.
The 16th European Summer School
in Logic, Language and Information.
ESSLLI-04, Nancy.
[Program committee for the Language and Computation area]
Summer 2004.
2003
Detlef Prescher, Khalil Sima'an.
Probabilistic
Models of NLP.
ESSLLI-03, Vienna.
[Our course material can be found here. The
course was sponsored by the EACL]
Summer 2003.
Detlef Prescher, Khalil Sima'an.
Probabilistic
Parsing.
ESSLLI-03, Vienna.
[Our course material can be found here]
Summer 2003.
Khalil Sima'an, Detlef Prescher.
Probabilistic
Grammars and Data-Oriented Parsing.
ILLC, University of Amsterdam.
Spring 2003.
See also
Yoav Seginer etal.
Reading Group on Natural Language Learning.
ILLC, University of Amsterdam.
Winter 2003/04.
Detlef Prescher etal.
Reading
Group on the Elements of Statistical Learning.
ILLC, University of Amsterdam.
Spring 2003.
2002
Detlef Prescher, Karin Müller.
Training and Evaluation of Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars.
CoLi, Saarland University.
Summer 2002.
2001
Detlef Prescher.
The EM Algorithm.
CoLi, Saarland University.
Winter 2001/02.
See also
Amit Dubey etal.
Reading Group on Machine Learning and Statistical Methods for NLP.
DFKI and CoLi, Saarland University.
Summer 2001 and Winter 2001/02.
2000
Stefan Evert, Uli Heid, Detlef Prescher.
Computational Lexicology and Lexicography.
IMS, University of Stuttgart.
Summer 2000.
1999
Stefan Riezler, Detlef Prescher.
Probabilistic Clustering for NLP Applications.
IMS, University of Stuttgart.
Summer 1999.
1997-1998
Glenn Carroll, Marc Light, Detlef Prescher, Stefan Riezler, Helmut Schmid, Andreas Wagner.
Reading Group on Statistical NLP.
IMS, University of Stuttgart,
SfS, University of Tübingen
1993
Detlef Prescher.
Introduction to APL.
Allianz AG and University
of Cooperative Education, Stuttgart.
Winter 1993/94.
Guest Lectures
2004
Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of PCFGs.
In Khalil Sima'an's course on Language and
Speech Processing.
ILLC, University of Amsterdam.
November 2004.
2003
Induction of Semantically Annotated Lexicons.
In Marten De Rijke and Remko Scha's course on
Question-Answering Systems.
ILLC, University of Amsterdam.
March 2003.
1999
Evaluation of Parsing Systems.
In Mats Rooth's course on Statistical Grammar
Development.
IMS, University of Stuttgart.
Summer 1999.
1998
Corpus-based Extraction of Verb-Argument Pairs.
In Uli Heid's course on Electronic
Dictionaries.
IMS, University of Stuttgart.
Summer 1998.
Supervision
Kelly Nedwick (2004).
A Feasibility Study in Unsupervised
Estimation of a Stochastic CFG for Latin Morphology.
MA Thesis (Co-supervisor:
Remko Scha).
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Andreas Zollman (2004).
A
Consistent and Efficient Estimator for the Data-Oriented Parsing
Model.
MSc Thesis (First supervisor: Khalil
Sima'an).
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
PhD Committee(s)
Montserrat Marimon (2003).
On
Distributing the Analysis Process of a Broad-Coverage
Unification-Based Grammar of Spanish.
Ph.D. Thesis
(Advisers: Nuria
Bel
and Axel Theofilidis).
University of Barcelona, Spain.
Last updated: Feb 2007
