====== Textbook ======

There is no required textbook for this course.

Four optional reference books:

  - C. M. Bishop, [[http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/prml/|Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning]], Springer, ISBN 0-387-31073-8.
  - X.D. Huang, A. Acero, H.W. Hon, [[http://books.google.ca/books/about/Spoken_language_processing.html?id=reZQAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y|Spoken Language Processing: a guide to theory, algorithm, and system development]], Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0-13-022616-5.
  - R. O. Duda, P. Hart and D. Stork, [[http://books.google.ca/books/about/Pattern_Classification_2nd_Edition_with.html?id=KW8aPAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y|Pattern Classification]] (2nd Edition), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-471-05669-3.
  - C. D. Manning and H. Schutze, [[http://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/|Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing]], The MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-13360-1.