Refs:

• Lecture Slides from the Stanford Coursera course NLP, by Dan Jurafsky and Christopher Manning, 2011
• A comprehensive overview of NLP, Ann Copestake, 2004 (a little bit old)

Courses:

• Stanford Coursera course NLP: used to be on Coursera, had been removed. Here is an alternative.

NLP in fields:

Healthcare

• Nadkarni, Prakash M., Lucila Ohno-Machado, and Wendy W. Chapman. "Natural language processing: an introduction." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 18.5 (2011): 544-551.

• D’Avolio, Leonard, Dina Demner, and Fushman Wendy W. Chapman. "An Introduc+ on to Clinical Natural Language Processing."(??)