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by PainfullyNormal 1496 days ago
> I recommend people spend a bit of time to read an(y) introduction to linguistics textbook

Do you have a favorite you can recommend?
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sam_lowry_ 1496 days ago
Elements by Tesnière. I am not kidding, there is a shitload of knowledge there, largely forgotten by the time NLP merged with CompSci.

Jurafsky and Martin, Manning and Schutze are great books for computer scientists but these do not teach about the language.

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mothcamp 1496 days ago
In addition to Jurafsky and Martin (https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/), I also like Emily Bender's book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18128399-linguistic-fund...

Bender's book is NOT an end-to-end text though imo. It's more a central jumping off point. So you can read about a concept and if it sounds interesting, search more about it.

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rmellow 1496 days ago
In addition to Jurafsky and Martin, I recommend Foundations of Statistical NLP by Manning and Schutze: https://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/promo/
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