Who are the major authors in Information Extraction, Text Mining and Natural Language Processing area?

Question

This is not a code question, but about concepts. I want to know who are the main author/researches for Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing and Text Mining to read his papers/books/works.

Answer 1

You will find very good references on Quora under:

What are the most important research papers which all NLP students should definitely read?

Answer 2

While not a definitive list, the ACL Anthology Network has a list of rankings that give you a sense of what papers are frequently cited in Computational Linguistics.

Answer 3

For me, Daniel Jurafsky, Christopher Manning and Tom Mitchell.

Answer 4

Stanford is offering an online class on natural language processing. Visit http://www.nlp-class.org/

Answer 5

Look at The Handbook of Data Mining - Nong Ye for a collection of many papers. This should also point you to the key researchers in text/data mining.

http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Mining-Human-Factors-Ergonomics/dp/0805855637/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328297313&sr=1-1

I for the record own this book.