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.
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.
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.