Good old Jurafsky and Martin. Got to meet Dan Jurafsky when he visited UT back in '07 or so -- cool guy. This one and Manning and Schutze's "Dice Book" (Founda

Good old Jurafsky and Martin. Got to meet Dan Jurafsky when he visited UT back in '07 or so -- cool guy. This one and Manning and Schutze's "Dice Book" (Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing) were what got me into computational linguistics, and eventually web development.