For those taking the course, make sure you don't miss the free pdf of the MR+S book that regularly shows up on suggested reading list:
http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/pdf/irbookonlinereading.pdf
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#32With so many online courses happening concurrently, how are you guys choosing which courses to actually do? I work full-time and I find it really hard to squeeze some free time.
Have to prioritize. Yes it's painful. I'd love to do all of them, but only have time for about one at a time, so pick the one with the highest value to you and focus on it.
Take comfort in the knowledge that now that they are going online, they'll still be there when you're ready for the next one.
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#33Can't wait for a data structures class. And then, for an operating systems class.
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#34Today I watched the first lecture and started on the first assignment. I have all of Chris Manning's books and have read them, and I just ordered Dan Jurafsky's book on Amazon. I have been doing NLP for a long time, and I expect to get a lot out of this class. I liked the style of the introductory lecture, well done, and the way they have the auto-graded programming assignments set up looks slick.
I'm curious: considering you have read all of Manning's books and have been doing NLP for a long time, what do you expect to get out of the class?
I took one NLP class at grad school but I don't remember much of it (besides it was in Japanese, which is my 3rd language). I'm trying to decide whether to sign up for the course or just get one of the books and study it at my own pace. I'm tending to the latter since 10 hours a week is quite a lot to fit in my schedule.
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#35Finally! This class was supposed to start in January 2012, hopefully all the technical kinks are worked out. Does anyone know what the issue was? I believe all the Stanford online learning classes were affected.
I believe the issues were administrative and legal rather than technical. My impression was that once the Stanford administrative bureaucracy got wind of what was happening with these courses, what started as a fun and entrepreneurial "let's change education" turned into much paper work and long meetings. I've found this is the typical academic response to anything truly innovative ;) (I also think this is partly why…
Plus it's outsourced to a third-party startup in some way.
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#36Seriously, the first project is harvesting emails? With regular expressions?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe the issues were administrative and legal rather than technical. My impression was that once the Stanford administrative bureaucracy got wind of what was happening with these courses, what started as a fun and entrepreneurial "let's change education" turned into much paper work and long meetings. I've found this is the typical academic response to anything truly innovative ;) (I also think this is partly why…
Plus it's outsourced to a third-party startup in some way.
You mean Coursera?
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#38Today I watched the first lecture and started on the first assignment. I have all of Chris Manning's books and have read them, and I just ordered Dan Jurafsky's book on Amazon. I have been doing NLP for a long time, and I expect to get a lot out of this class. I liked the style of the introductory lecture, well done, and the way they have the auto-graded programming assignments set up looks slick.
I'm curious: considering you have read all of Manning's books and have been doing NLP for a long time, what do you expect to get out of the class? I took one NLP class at grad school but I don't remember much of it (besides it was in Japanese, which is my 3rd language). I'm trying to decide whether to sign up for the course or just get one of the books and study it at my own pace. I'm tending to the latter since 10 h…
A good question. I have and have read about a dozen books on natural language processing, but I am hoping to get a more solid foundation.
I find the lectures interesting. I went to school at UCSB and mostly my teachers were very good, but I expect the "best of the best" from Stanford.
I enjoyed writing the first homework assignment late last night. I thought that it was an easy problem, but the more I worked on it the better results I got.
I am also taking the Probabilistic Graphical Models class because I don't have much experience in that area - that is fresh and new material for me.