NLP Learning Resources in 2020

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July 30, 2020

There’s a lot of great freely available resources in NLP right now; and the field is moving quickly with the recent success of neural models. I wanted to mention a few that look interesting to me.

Jurefsky and Martin’s Speech and Language Processing

The third edition is a free ebook that is in progress that covers a lot of the basic ideas in NLP. It’s got a great reputation in the NLP community and is nearly complete now. It makes a good starting point or reference book for a particular subject.

Stanford CS224n: NLP with Deep Learning

This course covers Deep Learning from NLP in Pytorch and the 2019 video lectures are great. It’s run by Chris Manning who is a leader in the field of neural chunking and parsing, and for example guided Stanza.

fast.ai NLP Course

This is a lot less academic than other approaches, which gives a good contrast, in their library over Pytorch. Lectures available online; they also cover some NLP in the general fast.ai course.

Notable free resources

These all look good, but I would start with the above 3.

Also most Deep Learning courses will tend to touch on NLP, such as NYU 2020 Deep Learning with Pytorch.

Resource Resources

Almost all of these and more can be found at Awesome NLP and Awesome Deep Learning for NLP; they’re probably more up to date too.