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Speech and Language Processing (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence)
by Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin
from Prentice Hall

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• quite good, but still has improvement space
  This book is quite good if you are interested in NLP.
  If the could author provide a CD with some demos,source codes and applications, it, the reader can understand the contend in this book easier.
  This course is really realy difficult.

• Great introductions and reference book
  I read the first edition of that book and it is terrific. The second edition is much more adapted to current research. Statistical methods in NLP are more detailed and some syntax-based approaches are presented. My specific interest is in machine translation and dialogue systems. Both chapters are extensively rewritten and much more elaborated. I believe this book is perfect for everyone who starts in speech and language processing. With precision, coherent examples and some humor, this book give a great... more info

• Needs a second volume which explains the first
  This book is by now an accepted classic in the field. It is basically the only textbook that covers so much of computational linguistics, so I have had no choice but to use it for the past several years. Just the same, I'd rather not use it for teaching linguistics students. While the book has much to offer the professional, including a broad range of topics extensively researched, it is much more useful in this "handbook" capacity than as a textbook for the uninitiated. The chief reasons for this are: 1)... more info

• I looked for
  something which I can use - I am a linguist - and found it immensly readable and useful

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