NLP is a huge topic, and the choice of materials pretty much depends on what you'd like to focus on. In my experience nothing beats a good textbook, especially

NLP is a huge topic, and the choice of materials pretty much depends on what you'd like to focus on. In my experience nothing beats a good textbook, especially if you do the exercises. The classic NLP textbook is * Jurafsky, Martin: "Speech and Language Processing" (https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/) -- already mentioned here: a very solid overview textbook to give you an idea about the field; Should you be interested in statistical NLP (even if it probably isn't as sexy as it used to be), the classic there is: * Manning, Schütze: "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" (http://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/ http://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/).