Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)

Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin

2020 August: We're finally back to our regular summer writing on the textbook!

What we're busily writing right now: new versions of Chapter 8 (bringing together POS and NER in one chapter), Chapters 9 (with transformers) and 10 (BERT) and (finally) the MT chapter (11)!

Plus a modernizing pass (and typo fixing, thanks to all of you!!!) on all the other chapters.

We'll update them here when they are ready, and then figure out what's next.

When will the whole book be finished? Well, we're shooting for the end of 2020 for finishing the writing, but we'll see.



Last year's draft status, October 16, 2019



Last fall's updates include new chapters 10, 22, 23, 27, significantly rewritten versions of Chapters 9, 19, and 26, and a pass on all the other chapters with modern updates and fixes for the many typos and suggestions from you our loyal readers!

Thanks so much to all of you for the help! We are really really grateful!!!

Individual chapters are below; here is a single pdf of all the chapters in the oct 16, 2019 draft of the book-so-far

As always, typos and comments very welcome (just email slp3edbugs@gmail.com and let us know the date on the draft)!

And feel free to use the draft slides in your classes.

(Due to reorganizing, still expect random chapter numbers and missing latex chapter and section crossrefs in the pdfs)