" This book is an absolute necessity for instructors at all levels, as well as an indispensible
reference for researchers. Introducing NLP, computational linguistics, and speech
recognition comprehensively in a single book is an ambitious enterprise. The authors have
managed it admirably, paying careful attention to traditional foundations, relating recent
developments and trends to those foundations, and tying it all together with insight and
humor. Remarkable."-Philip Resnik, University of Maryland"... ideal for... linguists who want …