Corpora: introductory books on NLP

[barlow at rice.edu]

A couple of new books, which focus more on statistics than programming are:

Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language
Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition
by Dan Jurafsky, James H. Martin

Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
by Christopher D. Manning  Hinrich Schutze

Michael


In message <01BF7B82.8AC08160.chris.allen at ih.hh.se>
 chris.allen at ih.hh.se writes:
> Dear Corpora subscribers,
>
> I wondered if anyone out there could recommend a good introductory text(s)
> on the subject of natural language processing, parsing, tagging  etc.
>
> I am interested in gaining an insight into the area while at the same time
> I must acknowledge the fact that I have little computer programming
> experience.
>
> I'd be grateful for any suggestions/ recommendations.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Chris Allen
>
>
>
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