FYI the course on Coursera.org given by Michael Collins of Columbia University has just opened a few days early for those eager to get started.

www.coursera.org

From the syllabus on coursera:

Topics covered include:

1. Language modeling.
2. Hidden Markov models, and tagging problems.
3. Probabilistic context-free grammars, and the parsing problem.
4. Statistical approaches to machine translation.
5. Log-linear models, and their application to NLP problems.
6. Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning in NLP.

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