Natural Language Processing (2018) [pdf]

You can also buy a printed copy if you like that kind of thing: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Language-Processing-Adap...

This a great resource, I use it regularly as a reference and it would work well as a textbook too.

It's also comprehensive, from traditional statistical methods, linear models & context-free parsing right through to modern neural network-based approaches.

There's been a lot of progress in the past 18 months (mainly the transformer/self-attention model) that I don't think is reflected, but that's probably because it's so recent. I assume this will warrant a mention in future editions.

Is there a place where one can test their NLP understanding online?

I wish Jacob didn't run away to Google and instead made an online NLP class @ Udacity/edX.

Someone who read it, is is suitable for a complete beginner with some math background?

How do I download it on Linux? Following the link hangs my PC, wget just downloads 66.03 kb of HTML code with no meaningful content but "Sorry, something went wrong", "Sorry, we cannot display this file" and "Sorry, this file is invalid so it cannot be displayed" down within it.