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Natural Language Processing (2018) [pdf]

290 points by scvalencia 7y ago

nmfisher 7y ago
This a great resource, I use it regularly as a reference and it would work well as a textbook too. It's also comprehensive, from traditional statistical methods, linear models & context-free parsing right through to modern neural network-based approaches. There's been a lot of progress in the past 18 months (mainly the transformer/self-attention model) that I don't think is reflected, but that's probably because it's so recent. I assume this will warrant a mention in future editions.
- nlp_textbook 7y ago
  Good to hear! Yes at some point I'd like to update it. The current version went to reviewers in summer 2018, so it wasn't possible to add much that came out after that.
nlp_textbook 7y ago
You can also buy a printed copy if you like that kind of thing: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Language-Processing-Adaptive-Computation/dp/0262042843 https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Language-Processing-Adap...
bitL 7y ago
I wish Jacob didn't run away to Google and instead made an online NLP class @ Udacity/edX.
qwerty456127 7y ago
How do I download it on Linux? Following the link hangs my PC, wget just downloads 66.03 kb of HTML code with no meaningful content but "Sorry, something went wrong", "Sorry, we cannot display this file" and "Sorry, this file is invalid so it cannot be displayed" down within it.
- Sephr 7y ago
  The raw PDF is available at https://github.com/jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class/raw/master/notes/eisenstein-nlp-notes.pdf https://github.com/jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class/raw/master/n...
  - qwerty456127 7y ago
    Thanks. Perhaps the link should point to it in the first place. This is the second time I click a link to a pdf hosted on GitHub and everything hangs. Other people confirmed and pointed out Android is vulnerable as well the previous time this happened.
    - deleted 7y ago
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    - ripperdoc 7y ago
      Happens to me as well on Chrome/Mac. Not Safari though.
zappf 7y ago
Is there a place where one can test their NLP understanding online?
- ssivark 7y ago
  You mean... like reading and commenting on HN? :-)
- ma2rten 7y ago
  Kaggle?
ComodoHacker 7y ago
Someone who read it, is is suitable for a complete beginner with some math background?

290 points by scvalencia 7y ago

This a great resource, I use it regularly as a reference and it would work well as a textbook too. It's also comprehensive, from traditional statistical methods, linear models & context-free parsing right through to modern neural network-based approaches. There's been a lot of progress in the past 18 months (mainly the transformer/self-attention model) that I don't think is reflected, but that's probably because it's so recent. I assume this will warrant a mention in future editions.

nlp_textbook 7y ago
Good to hear! Yes at some point I'd like to update it. The current version went to reviewers in summer 2018, so it wasn't possible to add much that came out after that.

nlp_textbook 7y ago

You can also buy a printed copy if you like that kind of thing: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Language-Processing-Adaptive-Computation/dp/0262042843 https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Language-Processing-Adap...

bitL 7y ago

I wish Jacob didn't run away to Google and instead made an online NLP class @ Udacity/edX.

qwerty456127 7y ago

How do I download it on Linux? Following the link hangs my PC, wget just downloads 66.03 kb of HTML code with no meaningful content but "Sorry, something went wrong", "Sorry, we cannot display this file" and "Sorry, this file is invalid so it cannot be displayed" down within it.

Sephr 7y ago
The raw PDF is available at https://github.com/jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class/raw/master/notes/eisenstein-nlp-notes.pdf https://github.com/jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class/raw/master/n...
- qwerty456127 7y ago
  Thanks. Perhaps the link should point to it in the first place. This is the second time I click a link to a pdf hosted on GitHub and everything hangs. Other people confirmed and pointed out Android is vulnerable as well the previous time this happened.
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
  - ripperdoc 7y ago
    Happens to me as well on Chrome/Mac. Not Safari though.

zappf 7y ago

Is there a place where one can test their NLP understanding online?

ssivark 7y ago
You mean... like reading and commenting on HN? :-)
ma2rten 7y ago
Kaggle?

ComodoHacker 7y ago

Someone who read it, is is suitable for a complete beginner with some math background?