These topics have been discussed in previous lab meetings (plus a few others that have come up, although weren't official lab meeting topics). Links to slides or handouts are provided where possible. See also the QuarterlySchedule. Our hope is that with the Wiki, this documentation can grow.

Linguistic software, software useful for linguistics

• CHILDES/CLAN
• emacs, the kitchen sink editor
• TiGeRSearch (Overview)
• WinMine An implementation of decision trees
• LKB Grammar development environment.
• [incr tsdb()]
• SIL's Shoebox/Toolbox
• GOLD
• FIELD
• LaTeX
• Natural Language Toolkit
• Source Control

Programming languages, operating systems, encodings

• Python
• VisualStudio
• Unicode
• grep/UNIX shell
• Semantic Web/RDF/OWL

Problems/application areas in computational linguistics

• POS Tagging
• Unsupervised learning of natural languages: Solan et al., "Unsupervised Learning of Natural Languages"

Other

• Graph representations of typed feature structures
• Decision Trees
• Support Vector Machines

-- EmilyBender - 25 Oct 2004

• stat-classification.pdf: Slides of 2005-02-11 JeremyKahn talk about statistical classification