Our textbook

Jurafsky and Martin (forthcoming) Speech and Language Processing, 2nd edition.
We will talk about chapters 12 to 14 in the first two weeks of this course.
You might want to look at earlier chapters for more background information.

Links to research papers

The ACL anthology.
Free on-line anthology of papers published at ACL conferences.
You will need this for your term paper!

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
The European Chapter of the ACL (EACL) website contains many useful links as well.
The MIT encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences. The Linguistics and Computational Intelligence sections contain a lot of material that is relevant to this course. Enjoy browsing!
Language Log. Not of immediate relevance to this class, but a great blog about language and linguistics, by some very senior people in the field. Highly recommended for when you want to take a break from studying!