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Re:Critique: "Programming Collective Intelligence" by jgrahamc on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @07:53AM (#208817)
It's a very good introductory text. If you get interested in going deeper then try: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~hinrich/information-retrieval-...
Re:Critique: "Programming Collective Intelligence" by jimbokun on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @10:45AM (#208955)
Just took a class with this as the text. Very readable, without dumbing anything down.

This book (by two of the same authors) is also good:

http://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/

Re:Critique: "Programming Collective Intelligence" by aitoehigie on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @08:09AM (#208828)
thanks