My co-authors and I wrote "Taming Text" (https://www.manning.com/books/taming-text https://www.manning.com/books/taming-text) specifically for programmers (ther

My co-authors and I wrote "Taming Text" (https://www.manning.com/books/taming-text https://www.manning.com/books/taming-text) specifically for programmers (there is little math, mostly code) interested in getting started in NLP. The examples are a bit dated at this point (2013 publication date), but still applicable for someone getting started. Covers getting started, feature extraction and preprocessing, search, clustering, classification, string heuristics, Named Entity Recognition and finishes off w/ a simple Question Answering system. Examples are in Java. It is not an academic treatise.