Pearson International Edition (2009)

Chapter 1

• Page 38, bottom: The "duck" example explanation is backwards (and confusing). In Examples (1.5) and (1.8) "her duck" evokes distinct entities, while in Example (1.6) only one entity is evoked.
• Page 44, middle: Zelig Harris should be Zellig Harris.

Chapter 2

• Pages 62 and 67: In the transition tables the "0" indicates that there is no transition for that entry. It does not refer to some "0" in the alphabet.
• Page 69, Figure 2.19: The function NEXT returns an element from the agenda and removes it (i.e, it does a pop in the case of a stack).

Chapter 4

• Page 139, Equation 4.36: Replace with the following (only the third line changes):
  
• Page 142, Equation 4.46 (repeated from 4.36): Replace with
  

Chapter 6

• Page 213, the first sentence of section 6.3: The reference to Figure 6.2b should be to Figure 6.3
• Page 216, Figure 6.7: The computation for \alpha_2(2) should read \alpha_2(2)=.32*.14+.02*.08=.0464.
• Page 220, Equations 6.24, 6.25, and 6.28: These should end with $a_{iF}$, not $a_{i,F}$, to be consistent with the other formulas in the section.
• Page 220, Equation 6.24: $v_t(q_F)$ should be replaced by $v_T(q_F)$ (i.e., the correct equation should use capital T not t).
• Page 222, Equation 6.30: $\beta_1(0)$ should be replaced with $\beta_1(q_0)$ (for consistency with pages 145 and 175).
• Page 224, Equation 6.36: $\beta_T(1)$ should be replaced with $\beta_1(q_0)$ and $\alpha_T(N)$ should be replaced by $\alpha_T(q_F)$, as follows:
  
• Page 224, Equation 6.37: The denominator should be replaced by $\alpha_T(q_F)$ as follows:
  
• Page 224, Equation 6.38: The variable j is incorrectly overloaded, replace with the following:
  
• Page 226, Figure 6.16: the denominators of the two E-step equations are inconsistent and the denominator of the first M-step equation overloads the variable j. Replace the E-step and first part of M-step with the following:
  

Chapter 8

• Page 315: "mean/beat" should be "meat/beat"

Chapter 9

• Pages 342-346, text and Equations 9.29, 9.30, 9.35, 9.36, 9.39, 9.40, 9.41, 9.42: In these 4 pages we inadvertently used ξ_t(i) instead of γ_t(i) to refer to the probability of being in state i at time t. The use of ξ is confusing since in Chapter 6 we used γ for this probability and ξ for something else. Although this chapter is internally consistent in its use of ξ, for compatibility with Chapter 6 we recommend that lecturers and readers replace all the instances of ξ in these 4 pages with γ
• Page 346, Equation 9.39: The summation should be from 1 to N, rather than the N being a multiplicand.
• Page 317, last paragraph: N/|V| should be |V|^-N

Chapter 11

• Page 399, the second table under "Shortening": s:ap should be sa:p

Chapter 13

• Page 475, Figure 13.11: Upper right index should be [0,n].

Chapter 16

• Page 578, Exercises 16.3 and 16.4: x∈ a,b* should be x ∈ {a,b}*
• Page 578, Exercises 16.3 and 16.4: x^R should be defined as the reverse of the string x.

Chapter 17

• Page 601, middle: In the FOL formulae, EndPoint(i,e) should be EndPoint(i,n), Precedes(e, Now) should be Precedes(n, Now), and EndPoint(e,n) should be EndPoint(i,n). And the quantified variable t in these FOL is extraneous.

Chapter 18

• Page 622, Equation 18.14: Sem should be lowercase in semantic attachment.
• Page 623, Equation 18.19: CFG rule should be Verb → closed to match the example.
• Page 624, second FOL expression: ClosedThing(Maharani) should be ClosedThing(e,Maharani).
• Page 629, Figure 18.6: The store for the NP is missing an opening bracket.
• Page 630, paragraph -2, last sentence: Second h₁ should be h₂. That is, h₂ stands for the nuclear scope of the menu.

Chapter 20

• Page 691, Figure 20.8: sim_jc should be sim_JC
• Page 704, middle of last paragraph before 20.9: "Recall from Section 20.10" should be "As we'll see in Section 20.10"
• Page 707, line 2: VP →NP PP should be VP →VBD NP PP
• Page 709, line -1: "usuing" should be "using"

Chapter 21

• Page 719: The reference to sentence (21.8ab) should just refer to sentence (21.8)
• Page 719: The words "cohesion!chain" should be "cohesion chain"

Chapter 22

• Page 775, Equation 22.17: Replace with the following
  
• Page 778, TimeML example: The final tag should be </TIMEX3>, not </TIMEX2>.
• Page 781, Figure 22.22: Change "YYYY-nnW" to "YYYY-Wnn" and change "2007-27W" to "2007-W27".

Chapter 24

• Page 869: Change <reprompt\> to <reprompt/>
• Pages 869, 870, and 871, Figures 24.11, 24.12, and 24.13: All cases of <value expr="..."> should be <value expr="..."/>
• Page 871, Figure 24.13: There should be no space before the keyword CDATA.

Chapter 25

• page 896 Figure 25.1, the first "the" in the fourth row should be white rather than gray
• page 902 line -2 "xiáo" should be "xiào"
• page 932 Figure 25.31, in candidate 2, the words "to", "forever", "party", "that", and "the" should also be highlighted/boxed in gray.