• Spelling correction
  • Peter Norvig's How to write a spelling corrector
  • The Lucene search engine's information retrieval approach to spelling suggestions: Did you mean?

• The NLTK Book discusses many topics in NLP and using Python for NLP work.
• Chris Manning's online NLP course at Stanford.
• Andrew Ng's online Machine Learning course at Stanford.

The ACL maintains a wiki with a big list of courses around the world.

Ray Mooney teaches a graduate course on NLP at UT Austin.

Here is an incomplete list of some other courses that are particularly relevant for this NLP course and might have useful information:

• Colorado-Boulder, James Martin
• CMU, Noah Smith
• Leeds, Eric Atwell
• Cornell, Claire Cardie
• Georgetown, Markus Dickinson (now at Indiana)
• Stanford, Chris Manning
• Michigan, Dragomir Radev
• Berkeley, Dan Klein
• Johns Hopkins, Jason Eisner
• Maryland, Philip Resnik