On Writing a Textbook on Natural Language Processing¶

Author¶

Jacob Eisenstein

Abstract¶

There are thousands of papers about natural language processing and computational linguistics, but very few textbooks. I describe the motivation and process for writing a college textbook on natural language processing, and offer advice and encouragement for readers who may be interested in writing a textbook of their own.

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