Tangentially related if you're interested in keeping up to date with what's going on in the field: Sebastian Ruder's blog has many good posts on recent advance

Tangentially related if you're interested in keeping up to date with what's going on in the field: Sebastian Ruder's blog has many good posts on recent advancements in NLP (literature reviews, conference highlights): http://ruder.io/ http://ruder.io/ The posts are concise and accessible enough that you can skim through them quickly. Then you can go check out the paper directly if something piques your interest.