Speech and Language Processing - Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin

What did you do this weekend? Maybe you went to the supermarket for your weekly shop, or for a walk in the autumnal sunshine. More likely perhaps is that you got caught up in the mania surrounding the football. Not me though. No, in the few hours I wasn’t at work I spent my time curled up on my bed reading, wait for it, this book. It wasn’t the first time I read it – when I was in Vienna this summer, my boss came into the office one day, plunked it down in front of me and told me to spent the afternoon reading it – but since it’s now number 1 on the list of recommended books for my NLP course, I’ve just bought my very own copy. ...  Read the complete review