Explore the fascinating world of human language and computation with “Introduction to Natural Language Processing.” This essential textbook from The MIT Press synthesizes classical techniques with cutting-edge machine learning for a comprehensive understanding of NLP. Ideal for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, software engineers, and data scientists, it covers methods for building software that understands, generates, and manipulates human language. Delve into supervised and unsupervised learning, structured language representations, linguistic meaning, and key applications like information extraction, machine translation, and text generation. With practical exercises and a focus on contemporary data-driven approaches, this book equips you with the technical skills to analyze and build advanced NLP systems. A must-have for anyone in the Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series.