NLP Class is live

Cryptography <a href="http://www.crypto-class.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.crypto-class.org/</a> and Design and Analysis of Algorithms I <a href="http://www.algo-class.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.algo-class.org/</a> class are live too.<p>I maintain a list of all these courses from Coursera, Udacity and MITx at <a href="http://www.class-central.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.class-central.com</a>

Finally! This class was supposed to start in January 2012, hopefully all the technical kinks are worked out. Does anyone know what the issue was? I believe all the Stanford online learning classes were affected.

Today I watched the first lecture and started on the first assignment. I have all of Chris Manning's books and have read them, and I just ordered Dan Jurafsky's book on Amazon.<p>I have been doing NLP for a long time, and I expect to get a lot out of this class.<p>I liked the style of the introductory lecture, well done, and the way they have the auto-graded programming assignments set up looks slick.

For those taking the course, make sure you don't miss the free pdf of the MR+S book that regularly shows up on suggested reading list: <a href="http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/pdf/irbookonlinereading.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/pdf/irbookonlinereading.pdf</a>

This is great, I have enrolled for this and for the algo course.<p>I have never studied NLP but I did an algo class at a brick university some years ago.<p>This being stanford however I am a little worried that my theory/math skills may not be up to the standard but I am hoping to wing it and brush up on what I need as I need it.<p>Wish me luck!

Seems like we have to sign up again, but with a Coursera account. There is also a Terms of Service to read through too.<p>Edit: This is just an observation. People who signed up at the end of last year might be out of the loop.

There is a circle on gplus for the game theory course students - <a href="http://ow.ly/9utYw" rel="nofollow">http://ow.ly/9utYw</a><p>Anybody wants to create hn one for algorithms/nlp? Might come up quite useful.

If you are interested in joining a learning group in SF around this class please see here<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3672184" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3672184</a>

With so many online courses happening concurrently, how are you guys choosing which courses to actually do? I work full-time and I find it really hard to squeeze some free time.

I got all excited for a minute and thought this was about Neuro Linguistic Programming. :) Still, sounds very interesting - I should definitely check it out!! (wasn't so excited when I saw it was a different NLP - but got excited again when I found out wat it was)

I just watched 'About the Course' Video, it felt awkward, looked like professor Jurafsky was reading from a blackboard. Also wondering if people taking the course planning to apply any of it in their daily work.

Are the video links active ?

Seriously, the first project is harvesting emails? With regular expressions?

Can't wait for a data structures class. And then, for an operating systems class.