Speech and language processing

“This book offers a unified vision of speech and language processing, presenting state-of-the-art algorithms and techniques for both speech and text-based processing of natural language.

This comprehensive work covers both statistical and symbolic approaches to language processing; it shows how they can be applied to important tasks such as speech recognition, spelling and grammar correction, information extraction, search engines, machine translation, and the creation of spoken-language dialog agents.”—BOOK JACKET.

Why I picked it up

Jurafsky and Martin's textbook is a standard reference in NLP. More technical than I typically work, but essential background for understanding what's happening under the hood.