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I was thinking about working through the NLTK book once I'm finished with Bishop's Pattern Recognition, would you be able to recommend an alternative?

syllogism 12y ago
There's no alternative NLP book I can really recommend, no --- sorry. It's moving too fast, the books are going out of date too quickly. You could try Hal Daume's blog, and Bob Carpenter's blog.
- sitkack 12y ago
  Here is a review [0] by Bob Carpenter of Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing [1]. [0] http://www.amazon.com/review/R2FUAZHGUOERHV http://www.amazon.com/review/R2FUAZHGUOERHV [1] http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Statistical-Natural-Language-Processing/dp/0262133601/ref=cm_rdp_product http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Statistical-Natural-Langua...
  - syllogism 12y ago
    I know that book well. It's too dated.
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habeanf 12y ago
Dependency Parsing by Nivre et al was a good source for catching up from an NLP course to state-of-the-art http://www.amazon.com/Dependency-Synthesis-Lectures-Language-Technologies/dp/1598295969/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398699731&sr=8-1&keywords=dependency+parsing http://www.amazon.com/Dependency-Synthesis-Lectures-Language...
- syllogism 12y ago
  It's still tough to recommend that, imo. If you could choose to beam it straight into your head? Yeah, go ahead. But working through a book takes a lot of time...It only gives you dependency parsing, and then you have to catch up on the last five years of dependency parsing.
vkhuc 12y ago
I think the book "Speech and Language Processing, 2nd Edition" from Prof. Daniel Jurafsky is very good http://www.amazon.com/Speech-Language-Processing-Daniel-Jurafsky/dp/0131873210 http://www.amazon.com/Speech-Language-Processing-Daniel-Jura... You can also check out the great online NLP course taught by the author and Prof. Chris Manning from Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfoudtpBV68&list=PL6397E4B26D00A269 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfoudtpBV68&list=PL6397E4B26...
bra-ket 12y ago
check out Michael Collins's NLP course: https://www.coursera.org/course/nlangp https://www.coursera.org/course/nlangp and notes: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mcollins/ http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mcollins/ he talks about averaged perceptron at the end (Lectures on generalized log-linear models - GLM http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cs4705/ http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cs4705/) perceptron tagger code (hw4 solution) can be found here https://github.com/emmadoraruth/Perceptron_Tagger.git https://github.com/emmadoraruth/Perceptron_Tagger.git

syllogism 12y ago

There's no alternative NLP book I can really recommend, no --- sorry. It's moving too fast, the books are going out of date too quickly. You could try Hal Daume's blog, and Bob Carpenter's blog.

sitkack 12y ago
Here is a review [0] by Bob Carpenter of Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing [1]. [0] http://www.amazon.com/review/R2FUAZHGUOERHV http://www.amazon.com/review/R2FUAZHGUOERHV [1] http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Statistical-Natural-Language-Processing/dp/0262133601/ref=cm_rdp_product http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Statistical-Natural-Langua...
- syllogism 12y ago
  I know that book well. It's too dated.
  - deleted 12y ago
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habeanf 12y ago

Dependency Parsing by Nivre et al was a good source for catching up from an NLP course to state-of-the-art http://www.amazon.com/Dependency-Synthesis-Lectures-Language-Technologies/dp/1598295969/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398699731&sr=8-1&keywords=dependency+parsing http://www.amazon.com/Dependency-Synthesis-Lectures-Language...

syllogism 12y ago
It's still tough to recommend that, imo. If you could choose to beam it straight into your head? Yeah, go ahead. But working through a book takes a lot of time...It only gives you dependency parsing, and then you have to catch up on the last five years of dependency parsing.

vkhuc 12y ago

I think the book "Speech and Language Processing, 2nd Edition" from Prof. Daniel Jurafsky is very good http://www.amazon.com/Speech-Language-Processing-Daniel-Jurafsky/dp/0131873210 http://www.amazon.com/Speech-Language-Processing-Daniel-Jura... You can also check out the great online NLP course taught by the author and Prof. Chris Manning from Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfoudtpBV68&list=PL6397E4B26D00A269 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfoudtpBV68&list=PL6397E4B26...

bra-ket 12y ago

check out Michael Collins's NLP course: https://www.coursera.org/course/nlangp https://www.coursera.org/course/nlangp and notes: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mcollins/ http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mcollins/ he talks about averaged perceptron at the end (Lectures on generalized log-linear models - GLM http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cs4705/ http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cs4705/) perceptron tagger code (hw4 solution) can be found here https://github.com/emmadoraruth/Perceptron_Tagger.git https://github.com/emmadoraruth/Perceptron_Tagger.git