Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Turing, A. M.,"Computing Machinery and Intelligence",MIND (the Journal of the Mind Association), vol. LIX, no. 236, pp. 433-60, 1950. Please read Sections 1-5, and section 7.
A Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models and Selected Applications in Speech Recognition L. R. Rabiner, Proc. IEEE, Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 257-286, February 1989. And Errata
Please concentrate on pages 257-267.

Learning parameter settings. A clear example. Evaluating models - applications and information theory

A very clear example of an HMM applied to a language processing task.
Doug Cutting, Julian Kupiec, Jan Pedersen, and Penelope Sibun, 1992. A Practical Part-of-Speech Tagger. Proceedings of the Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, pp. 133-140. Available as ps.
Classical reference on information theory.
Claude Shannon, 1948. A mathematical theory of communication. Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 27, pp. 379-423 and 623-656. Republished as "The mathematical theory of communication" in Warren Weaver and Claude E. Shannon, eds., The Mathematical Theory of Communication, U. Illinois Press, 1949.
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