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Manning, C. D. and H. Schütze: Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. The MIT Press. 1999. ISBN 0-262-13360-1. Eight copies of this book are available at the CS library for borrowing. Please be considerate to other students and do not keep the book(s) longer than absolutely necessary. |
Recommended & Reference Readings:
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Jurafsky, D. and J. H. Martin: Speech and Language Processing. Prentice-Hall. 2000. ISBN 0-13-095069-6. Three copies of Jurafsky's book are available at UFAL's library. |
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Wall, L., Christiansen, T. and R. L. Schwartz: Programming PERL, 3rd ed.. O'Reilly. 1996. ISBN 0-596-00027-8. (Sorry no large cover picture available.) |
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Allen, J.: Natural Language Understanding. The Benajmins/Cummings Publishing Company Inc. 1994. ISBN 0-8053-0334-0. |
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Cover, T. M. and J. A. Thomas: Elements of Information Theory. Wiley. 1991. ISBN 0-471-06259-6. |
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Charniak, E.: Statistical Language Learning. The MIT Press. 1996. ISBN 0-262-53141-0. |
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Jelinek, F.: Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition. The MIT Press. 1998. ISBN 0-262-10066-5. Four copies of Jelinek's book are available at UFAL's library, but they are primarily reserved for those taking Nino Peterek's and/or Filip Jurcicek's courses. |
Proceedings of major conferences (related to Natural Language Processing):
Some of the Proceedings are available at UFAL's library, physically and/or in electronic form. Most of them are, however, available through the ACL Anthology.
- ACL (Association of Computational Linguistics)
- European Chapter of the ACL
- North American Chapter of the ACL
- EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing)
- COLING (International Committee of Computational Linguistics)
- ANLP (Applied Natural Language Processing, by ACL)
- ACL SIGDAT, SIGNLL other SIG (Special Interest Groups) Workhops, such as WVLC (Workshop on Very Large Corpora)
- DARPA HLT (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Human Language Technology Workshops)
Other Resources:
- CLSP Workshops: Language Engineering for Students and Professionals Integrating Research and Education.
- Some interesting statistics on Czech and English.
- Eric Brill's short guide to Perl.
- Eric Brill's transformation-rules-based error-driven tagger (for Unix-based systems).