Set of books about Natural Language processing, Semantic Analysis and Data Mining.

Question

So i´m starting to write my thesis of my master, next semester (should be done before june), i already have the theme, and i need to write the state of art till february.

The main areas are Intelligent systems, Natural Language processing, Semantic Analysis and Data Mining.

I am researching for the best books about Natural Language processing, Semantic Analysis and Data Mining.

I would also like to get some good book about oracle databases, to put me up to speed, since the company requires the use of it.

Wich books should i pick? I have already some knowledge in nlp and semantic analysis and a fairly decent level of math

blueomega

Answer 1

This is very closely related to this stackoverflow question on natural language processing books.

You can find a fairly complete list on: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/natural-lang-processing-faq/ (see question 20).

I recommend "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" as an excellent resource.

Answer 2

For Data Mining I'd recommand a couple of books:

• Data Mining by Ian Witten and Eibe Frank Elsevier ed.
• Text Mining and Application programming by Manu Konchady Thomson ed.

Both of these books strike a good balance, they are somewhat "basic" / introductory, but supply enough detail never the less. They also both include software (effectively useful software, not just demo/play stuff) to illustrate and support the presentation.

(looking up online links for these)

For Natural Language Processing, you may consider

• Natural Language Processing with Python by S Bird, E Klein, and E Loper O'Reilly ed.

which is very tied to NLTK, but has a lot of useful info as well (plus you may like the hands on with NTLK). BTW this book is free, in its online version.

Answer 3

Speech and Natural Language Processing by Jurafsky and Martin

AND

Foundation of Statistical natural Language Processing by Manning and Schutze

are the too main books in the fields