By Steven Bird, Ewan Klein
This publication bargains a hugely obtainable advent to typical language processing, the sphere that helps numerous language applied sciences, from predictive textual content and e-mail filtering to automated summarization and translation. With it, you will find out how to write Python courses that paintings with huge collections of unstructured textual content. you will entry richly annotated datasets utilizing a entire diversity of linguistic facts buildings, and you can comprehend the most algorithms for reading the content material and constitution of written communication.
Packed with examples and routines, Natural Language Processing with Python may help you:
- Extract details from unstructured textual content, both to bet the subject or establish "named entities"
- Analyze linguistic constitution in textual content, together with parsing and semantic analysis
- Access renowned linguistic databases, together with WordNet and treebanks
- Integrate options drawn from fields as assorted as linguistics and synthetic intelligence
This publication can help you achieve functional talents in ordinary language processing utilizing the Python programming language and the normal Language Toolkit (NLTK) open resource library. in case you are drawn to constructing net purposes, studying multilingual information assets, or documenting endangered languages -- or in case you are easily curious to have a programmer's standpoint on how human language works -- you can find Natural Language Processing with Python either attention-grabbing and immensely useful.
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