Tutorials For Natural Language Processing

Question

I recently attended a class on coursera about "Natural Language Processing" and I learnt a lot about parsing, IR and other interesting aspects like Q&A etc. though I grasped the concepts well but I did not actually get any practical knowledge of it. Can anyone suggest me good online tutorials or books for Natural Language Processing?

Thanks

Answer 1

There are some resources available to start with Natural Language Processing (NLP):

•  Speech and Language Processing (2008 edition)

•  Jason Eisner's tutorial

•  Philip Resnik's tutorial

To start with NLP, you should begin with scratch. You should select some standard tasks (language modeling, text classification, POS-tagging, NER, parsing) and implement various algorithms (n-gram models, HMMs, Naive Bayes, MaxEnt, CKY). 

Hope this answer helps.