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

There is no required textbook for this course.

Four optional reference books:

  * C. M. Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer, ISBN 0-387-31073-8.

  * X.D. Huang, A. Acero, H.W. Hon, 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, Pattern Classification (2nd Edition), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-471-05669-3.

  * C. D. Manning and H. Schutze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, The MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-13360-1.