Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing [closed]

Answer 1

Jurafsky and Martin's Speech and Language Processing http://www.amazon.com/Speech-Language-Processing-Daniel-Jurafsky/dp/0131873210/ is very good. Unfortunately the draft second edition chapters are no longer free online now that it's been published :(

Also, if you're a decent programmer it's never too early to toy around with NLP programs. NLTK comes to mind (Python). It has a book you can read free online that was published (by OReilly I think).

Answer 2

Stanford CS 224: Natural Language Processing course that was mentioned already includes also videos online (in addition to other course materials). The videos aren't linked to on the course website, so many people may not notice them.

Answer 3

How about Markdown and an Introduction to Parsing Expression Grammars (PEG) posted by cletus on his site cforcoding?

ANTLR seems like a good place to start for natural language processing. I'm no expert though.