Readings

Bayesian approaches:

1. general Bayesian inference: doc and tool

http://ksvanhorn.com/bayes/free-bayes-software.html

2. The Variantional Bayesian toolkit:

http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/vbayes/vbsoftware.html

The sampling based Bayesian approach can be obtained here:

http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/

3. Topic models from David Blei

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/topicmodeling.html

4. MCMC approaches also here

http://www.mppmu.mpg.de/bat/

http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~aws/BayesForum_201204_KK.pdf

5. Topic models Biography

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mimno/topics.html

6. Gibbs LDA

http://gibbslda.sourceforge.net/

7. Tools for DPMM

Jacobei

https://github.com/jacobeisenstein/DPMM

Sickit

http://scikit-learn.org/0.11/index.html

Hains

http://code.google.com/p/haines/

8. Spase SVMs

http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/staff/xkh/

NLP toolkits

1. Stanford tools

http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/

SID toolits

1. Alize from Avignon

http://mistral.univ-avignon.fr/download_en.html

2. Idiap

https://github.com/bioidiap/xbob.spkrec

http://www.idiap.ch/~marcel/professional/Resources.html

People you may want to follow

1. Dong Yu, MS

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/dongyu/

2. Geoffrey E. Hinton, U. Toronto

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/

3. Deng Li, MS

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/deng/

4. Tara Sainath, IBM

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tara_Sainath/publications/

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/s/Sainath:Tara_N=.html

5. Daniel Povey

http://www.danielpovey.com/

5. Patrick Kenny, CRIM

http://www.crim.ca/perso/patrick.kenny/