Textbook

No single book covers all the material in this class.  The first half is covered reasonably well by:

Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Manning and Schutze, MIT press,1999.

It is available for sale in the University 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.



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