Experienced software dev, beginner to NLP. Seeking beginner learning resources, with a specific leaning towards NLP of Chinese language.

Web: https://www.reddit.com/r/LanguageTechnology/comments/sexrvx/experienced_software_dev_beginner_to_nlp_seeking/

I did a search in this sub for similar posts, and have gathered that the two best beginner resources in general, as recommended by this sub, would be the NTLK docs, https://www.nltk.org/book/ and the Jurafsky/Martin book https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/. (I found a couple of other interesting articles to read too).

However, as an outsider to this field, I fear I'll start going through all of this learning material and exercises that are based around processing the English language, and then not …

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