Christopher Manning
Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 1996
The syllabus as a postscript file.
There used to be some very out of date drafts of chapters of a textbook on statistical natural language processing here. They have now been delinked. But information about the book, including sample chapters is available. It will be published in 1999 by MIT Press.
Abney's paper on Statistical Methods and Linguistics
Information theory and probability exercises
Language identification
Word sense disambiguation
Topic detection in Switchboard