On Writing a Textbook on Natural Language Processing

Jacob Eisenstein


Abstract
There are thousands of papers about natural language processing and computational linguistics, but very few textbooks. I describe the motivation and process for writing a college textbook on natural language processing, and offer advice and encouragement for readers who may be interested in writing a textbook of their own.
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2021.teachingnlp-1.22
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP
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June
Year:
2021
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Online
Editors:
David Jurgens, Varada Kolhatkar, Lucy Li, Margot Mieskes, Ted Pedersen
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TeachingNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
125–130
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.teachingnlp-1.22
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.teachingnlp-1.22
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Jacob Eisenstein. 2021. On Writing a Textbook on Natural Language Processing. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP, pages 125–130, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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On Writing a Textbook on Natural Language Processing (Eisenstein, TeachingNLP 2021)
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