Required Readings

Required readings and supplementary materials will be available on the course website for each class in PDF form. The textbooks we will follow in this class include:

• Jurafsky and Martin. “Speech and Language Processing.” 3rd Ed. This textbook contains chapters on the fundamentals of natural language processing.
• Eisenstein. “Natural Language Processing.” This textbook contains an overview of machine learning approaches for NLP.
• Goldberg. “Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing.” This textbook provides a deep learning perspective towards NLP.

Background Readings

Students might optionally read additional background readings assigned in each class.

• Mitchell. “Machine Learning.” Fundamentals of Machine Learning.