GateXAIML / Recommended Books
Natural Language Processing
Why this subject matters: NLP has moved from a niche specialization to a core skill, thanks to the rise of LLMs — companies building chatbots, search, and document AI products actively hire for this specific expertise.
Standard reference
Speech and Language Processing
The definitive NLP textbook, regularly updated to include transformer-based methods alongside classical techniques.
In-depth
Natural Language Processing with Transformers
Written by Hugging Face engineers — the most current, practically-relevant book for how NLP is actually built in industry today.
Practice & problems
Natural Language Processing with Python
A hands-on introduction using NLTK — good for building intuition on tokenization, parsing, and classical NLP pipelines.
