Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have becomedominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensiv... read full description
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Dec 07, 2011
Michael
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A must read for anyone looking to get into NLP. Teaches from first principles, including briefly touching on information theory/entropy. I felt it was well grounded, and proceded at a good pace. No prior knowledge is required.
I picked this up at the same time as "Speech and Language Processing" (Jurafsky & Martin) and while Foundations is a much narrower book (making up with depth), I think it's for the better, as I found SLP far too broad and thin.
I picked this up at the same time as "Speech and Language Processing" (Jurafsky & Martin) and while Foundations is a much narrower book (making up with depth), I think it's for the better, as I found SLP far too broad and thin.
Apr 19, 2011
Currently it's a bit tough for me to read because I haven't formally studied logic or statistics... but a well written book
Dec 04, 2011
David
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This and Speech and Language Processing by Jurafsky and Martin are the two big introductory texts in natural language processing. I prefer the Jurafsky book; it goes into more detail, has more examples, and is written more for use as a class text. The Manning and Schutze book is much more mathematically oriented and goes into more detail on algorithms, so if you're focusing on the statistical aspect more than the language aspect, refer to this book. Ideally, you probably want both.
Dec 16, 2009
Bill
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This is the standard book on using probabilistic methods to analyze natural language. It has clear discussions of such core areas as N-gram language modeling, parsing, part of speech tagging, and information retrieval. The exceptionally lucid chapter on Hidden Markov Models is worth the price of the book alone. This is a good starting textbook for newcomers and a useful reference for everyone else. Essential.
Oct 31, 2011
Chris Irwin
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This book is the starting point for any serious study of the discipline.
Dec 28, 2010
Ilya
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As the great American anthropologist-linguist Edward Sapir put it, all grammars leak. Some sentences are obviously grammatical, some are obviously ungrammatical, but there are gray areas; native speakers of English disagree on whether sentences such as "Who did Jo think said John saw him?" and "The boys read Mary's stories about each other" are grammatical. A way of resolving this difficulty is to look at a large corpus of texts; sentence structures that occur there often are
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