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Dan’s Course on Machine Learning at Illinois CS446

Useful if you want to refresh your understanding of a first course in ML.

The class will be based mostly on papers that will be made available. The books are mentioned only for background reading.

NLP

  • Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing , 2nd Edition, 2008
  • Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schutze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing , MIT Press 1999
  • Eugene Charniak, Statistical Language Learning, MIT Press 1993
  • Frederick Jelinek, Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press 1998
  • Steve Young and G. Bloothooft (Eds), Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing, Kluwer
  • James Allen, Natural Language Understanding, Addison-Wesley
  • Linguistic Structure Prediction by Noah A. Smith. Electronic Version available here.
  • Natural Language Processing papers at the ACL anthology.

ML

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