IR book by Bruce Croft

Title: Search Engines Information Retrieval in Practice by Prof. Bruce Croft
Link: http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/irbook/

Intro: This book provides an overview of the important issues in information retrieval, and how those issues affect the design and implementation of search engines. Not every topic is covered at the same level of detail. The focus is on some of the most important alternatives to implementing search engine components and the information retrieval models underlying them. The target audience for the book is advanced undergraduates in computer science, although it is also a useful introduction for graduate students. (from the link)

 

Competitive Programming Book

Link: https://sites.google.com/site/stevenhalim/
Intro: for programming contests

Statistical Methods in Language and Linguistic Research

Link: https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=348&keyword=

A must-read book on C programming

The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.

R.I.P Dennis M. Ritchie

Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners

See this online link.
See the review from Computational Linguistics Journal.

NLP with Python

Book: http://www.nltk.org/book
Toolkit: http://code.google.com/p/nltk/

[Book] - Foundations of Computer Science

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html

(VNese fresh CS students should consider reading this book!)

Machine Translation Books

Just want to collect Machine Translation related books in the literature:

1) "Statistical Machine Translation" by Philipp Koehn
--> will try to buy this book if I have money hehe :D.

2) TBA

flex & bison

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596155988

This is the first time I know this. Is it useful to learn?

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Vu

New book "Probabilistic Graphical Models" (2009)

Probabilistic Graphical Models (more)
Principles and Techniques
Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman, 2009

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Vu

The book "Natural Language Processing with Python"

http://www.nltk.org/book

Will study about it soon!

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Vu

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) - a site containing more than 100,000 free online books in various languages ^_^. Especially, it allows to access the raw texts from books for further processing (e.g. book summarization - a very interesting research direction which has been underestimated so far).

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Vu

Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks

New book in 2009 about Bayesian Networks: "Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks" by Prof. Adnan Darwiche .

Link download: http://gigapedia.com/items/346116/modeling-and-reasoning-with-bayesian-networks (make sure that you already log in into that site)

Link on Amazon website: http://www.amazon.com/Modeling-Reasoning-Bayesian-Networks-Professor/dp/0521884381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239663545&sr=8-1

I am trying to read some of chapters in this book to study about Bayesian Networks and find that it is written with a very comprehensive and straightforward fashion, especially help us easily deal with a lot of mathematical materials in Bayesian Networks with accompanying examples. In my opinion, it may be better than the typical book in Bayesian Networks, namely "Learning Bayesian Networks" by Richard E. Neapolitan, which is very tough to read and understand.

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Vu

New Book: Search User Interfaces

A book written by Prof. Marti A. Hearst at University of California, Berkeley
Search User Interfaces: http://searchuserinterfaces.com/

Just a note, maybe it will be useful for me in the future.

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Vu