On: Offer HN: Advice from PhD on NLP, machine learning...

[bravura]

Good materials to read? I work in a text-analytics startup, so I do have a basic understanding about NLP and related fields.

I think have a solid ML understanding can serve you well if you are doing NLP.

* Good Freely Available Textbooks on Machine Learning? http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/

Besides that, I guess it depends specifically on what NLP tasks you are looking at. Can you tell me more?

[random42 → bravura]

Thanks! We primarily work on sentiment analysis, anaphora resolution, topic identification. Also work on topic classification and clustering.

[alextp → random42]

If you do anaphora resolution you should maybe look at this recent paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.154...

it's simple enough to get running, fast, and outperforms the state of the art of a couple of years ago.