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The book is divided into three primary parts that reflect the levels of language analysis:

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Published originally in 1987 (with a significantly revised second edition in 1995), this text is often considered the "bible" of classical Natural Language Processing (NLP). For students, researchers, and developers looking to understand how machines process language—not just through modern "black box" neural networks, but through the structural, logical, and grammatical rules that define human speech—this book is an essential resource.

If you are looking for the PDF of the textbook for study purposes:

While the full book is under copyright, several institutional and academic repositories host significant excerpts or chapter-level PDFs: