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On Writing a Textbook on Natural Language Processing

Abstract

AbstractThere 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.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge - Interdisciplinary and Natural Language Processing

Authors

Jacob Eisenstein

Topics

Natural Language Processing > Resources & Methods > Large Language Models Interdisciplinary > Social > Education Interdisciplinary > Education

Keywords

natural language processing computational linguistics
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