Natural Language Processing With Python By Ewan Klein, Edward Loper,
Steven Bird (Paperback, 2009)

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This book offers a highly accessible introduction to natural language processing the field that supports a variety of language technologies from predictive text & email filtering to automatic summarization & translation With it you'll learn how to write Python programs that work with large collections of unstructured text You'll access richly annotated datasets using a comprehensive range of linguistic data structures & you'll understand the main algorithms for analyzing the content & structure of written communication Packed with examples & exercises Natural Language Processing with Python will help you Extract information from unstructured text either to guess the topic or identify named entities Analyze linguistic structure in text including parsing & semantic analysis Access popular linguistic databases including Word Net & treebanks Integrate techniques drawn from fields as diverse as linguistics & artificial intelligence This book will help you gain practical skills in natural language processing using the Python programming language & the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) open source library If you're interested in developing web applications analyzing multilingual news sources or documenting endangered languages -- or if you're simply curious to have a programmer's perspective on how human language works -- you'll find Natural Language Processing with Python both fascinating & immensely useful