I got into NLP through Chris Callison-Burch's class at the University of Pennsylvania (http://mt-class.org/penn/ http://mt-class.org/penn/). Great meta resourc

I got into NLP through Chris Callison-Burch's class at the University of Pennsylvania (http://mt-class.org/penn/ http://mt-class.org/penn/). Great meta resource for intro readings, background, and advanced methods. This is the textbook for the course: http://www.statmt.org/book/ http://www.statmt.org/book/