After class today, I changed ¡­

After class today, I changed my mind about the mandatory parts of Jurafsky & Martin (2008) that I want you to read prior to our next lecture (Thursday, February 7): feel free to skip Sections 3.4.1, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9.1, and onwards. In other words, we will barely scratch the surface of Finite-State Transducers and two-level morphology. Instead, we will use a little more time on the regular algebra, so consider re-reading the last parts of Chapter 2.