Online Resources

Computational linguistics, 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics)

ACL Wiki for Computational Linguistics, The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2006 (http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page)

General introduction to linguistics

Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction, William O'Grady et al, 2000

Natural Language Processing

Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Manning & Schütze, 1999 (http://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/promo/)

Introduction to computational linguistics

Speech and Language Processing, Jurafsky & Martin, 2000 (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/slp.html)

Background in statistics and probability

Pattern Classification, Duda, Hart, and Stork, 2000 (http://rii.ricoh.com/~stork/DHS.html)

Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Devore and Farnum, 1999