Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

\"Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing\" is a comprehensive textbook authored by Christopher Manning and Hinrich Schutze, published by MIT Press in 1999. The book covers a range of topics in statistical natural language processing, including collocation finding, word sense disambiguation, probabilistic parsing, and information retrieval. With detailed coverage of mathematical and linguistic foundations, as well as practical algorithms, this textbook is designed for college graduate students and researchers looking to deepen their understanding of this fast-growing field. The book is illustrated and contains 720 pages, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in AI and semantics.