Quotes: Statistical Methods in Computational Linguistics

[Kilian]

This is typical for information theory. It's a festival of logarithms.

"I want English food" - doesn't seem very likely, but we can still calculate.

Aleks: R is just a number-crunching tool...
Johannes: ...and Perl is a language-crunching tool.
Aleks: Perl can crunch everything, including yourself.

Aleks: Sorry, it wasn't that funny in the exam.

[Laura]

@Perl: Wasn't it "including *it*self"?

[johannes]

No, it was yourself... There was something else we should put here...

[Laura]

Somebody should have stenographed the last few lectures as a whole...

[Kilian]

The other major problem is the assumption of independency... indep... that the words occur independently of each other.