if you get the math in Norvig/Russell's AI text, and the 2 leading Natural Language processing texts (Jurafsky/Martin and Manning/Schuetze) you'll be golden. H

if you get the math in Norvig/Russell's AI text, and the 2 leading Natural Language processing texts (Jurafsky/Martin and Manning/Schuetze) you'll be golden. Hot off press , 3 week old http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/slp2.html http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/slp2.html even hotter http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~hinrich/information-retrieval-book.html http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~hinrich/information-retrieval-... data mining: there's a few good books, look at Amazon reviews (Han/Kamber, Witten/Frank, the one i have: and a pretty accessible / non-dense intro, Programming collective intelligence http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/