Textbook

The book for this class is:

Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Manning and Schutze, MIT press,1999.
It is available for sale in the Univeristy Book Store, and can also be accessed on-line (from within CMU only) at http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/view?isbn=0262133601.

Other useful books are:
        - Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, F. Jelinek, MIT press 1997.
        - Elements of Information Theory, Cover and Thomas, Wiley & Sons 1991.
        - Text Compression, Bell Clearly and Witten, Prentice Hall, 1990.
        - Probability and Statistics, M. DeGroot, second edition, Addison Wesley.
        - All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference, Larry A. Wasserman, first edition, Springer, 2004.

The first two books are available at the LTI library.

Last modified: Jan 11 EST 2008