[habeanf]

Dependency Parsing by Nivre et al was a good source for catching up from an NLP course to state-of-the-art http://www.amazon.com/Dependency-Synthesis-Lectures-Language...

[syllogism]

It's still tough to recommend that, imo. If you could choose to beam it straight into your head? Yeah, go ahead. But working through a book takes a lot of time...It only gives you dependency parsing, and then you have to catch up on the last five years of dependency parsing.