Good materials for those of us who have no background in NLP besides basic computer science theory? My main proposal is to post a "How do I build X" question o

Good materials for those of us who have no background in NLP besides basic computer science theory? My main proposal is to post a "How do I build X" question on MetaOptimize. (I don't know any place on the web where experienced NLP people chat, besides MetaOptimize, but I would be interested to hear other options.) NLP isn't really very hard once you know what you're doing, it's just that as an inexperienced person you will spend a lot of time going down dead ends and blind alleys, and there are a lot of pitfalls to avoid. So getting the advice of experienced people, right from the beginning, is the best way to do this. See also: * What are the best resources to use when starting machine learning for an experienced programmer? http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/334/ http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/334/ * How do I get started understanding statistics & data analysis? http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/154/ http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/154/ * New to data mining - where to start? http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/362/ http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/362/