Monographs aren't really a thing in NLP, beyond theses. There are a couple of reference books most people lean on, though: * Foundations of Statistical Natural

Monographs aren't really a thing in NLP, beyond theses. There are a couple of reference books most people lean on, though: * Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Manning and Schütze * Speech and Language Processing by Jurafsky and Martin (which is being revised for a third edition, which you can look at: https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ ) Beyond that, you're basically stuck reading the research literature. On the up-side, most of that literature is freely available from the ACL anthology at http://aclweb.org/anthology/ http://aclweb.org/anthology/