compl ling and NLP difference

For all , me included, who think CL is about engineering:

computational linguistics is about using computer to investigate linguistic theory, while NLP is the engineering of text processing applications to solve particular tasks for particular reasons. Computational linguistics is then a SCIENCE, while NLP is the set of all its technological implications.

"semantic domains in computational linguistics"

Mbt tagger

Finally I managed to run a POS tagger on Persian data on a linux system and get some result. It was amazing for a guy like me who knew nothing of linux and compiling packages in it. It is MBt (memory based tagger). will post the result later. am trying to run a HMM and Brill tagger too.
link to download mbt..

laughter, the best medicine

"Asking a linguist how many languages they speak is like asking a doctor how many diseases they have."

Computational Linguistics: What About the Linguistics?

"As this historical summary implies, computational linguistics does not need mainstream,
non-computational linguistics, whether to supply intellectual credibility or to ensure
progress"

CL journal

NLTK part of speech concordance

try nltk.app.concordance() after importing nltk. It is a nice demo of POS patterns. you can search for all N N N tag sequences in for example brown corpus. I tried ADV ADJ N. part of the result were:

nationally/ADV famous/ADJ trade/N
commercially/ADV successful/ADJ musicals/N
ultimately/ADV fruitless/ADJ search/N
entirely/ADV happy/ADJ book/N
endlessly/ADV provocative/ADJ film/N
only/ADV unoccupied/ADJ kitchen/N

a good intro to Markov model:
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/roger/HiddenMarkovModels/html_dev/main.html

Sharif Nostalgia

CL in Sharif is the typical story of Iranian so called scholars..........self deleted... anyway its bloody bricks take me back long in time, when as a freshman, did all sort of things, except what supposed to do. think my Karma forces me to do things over and over again.