Essential books on Natural Language Processing
1. 
Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition
by:
Dan Jurafsky
4.28 avg rating — 631 ratings 
3. 
Natural Language Processing with Python: Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit
by:
Steven Bird
4.10 avg rating — 566 ratings 
5. 
Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines
by:
Stefan Büttcher
4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings 6. 
Introduction to Natural Language Processing (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
by:
Jacob Eisenstein
4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings 
10. 
Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing
by:
Yoav Goldberg
4.45 avg rating — 65 ratings 11. 
Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images
by:
Ian H. Witten
4.19 avg rating — 63 ratings 
12. 
Automatic Information Organization and Retrieval.
by:
Gerard Salton
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 14. 
Automatic Text Processing: The Transformation Analysis and Retrieval of Information by Computer
by:
Gerard Salton
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 15. 
Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics (The Information Retrieval Series) 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Text Mining Handbook: Advanced Approaches in Analyzing Unstructured Data
by:
Ronen Feldman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings 