Readings ======== **Textbooks**: - The primary text used for this course is \citet{JurafskyMartin2008}. This is the second edition with significant changes since the first edition---so please don't buy the old edition of the book. .. - We will use the electronic text book: \htlink{Natural Language Processing --- Analyzing Text with Python and the Natural Language Toolkit}{http://www.nltk.org/book}. -A recommended (but not required) text is ManningSchuetze1999. Please see the `text website _` for more information. **Articles**: Various articles will be assigned and provided electronically.