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This book offers a highly accessible introduction to Natural Language Processing, the field that underpins a variety of language technologies ranging from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and translation. You’ll learn how to write Python programs that work with large collections of unstructured text to analyze the structure and meaning of texts, drawing on techniques from the fields of linguistics and artificial intelligence. You’ll access richly annotated datasets using a comprehensive range of linguistic data structures, and you’ll understand the main algorithms for analyzing the content and structure of written communication.
This book will help you gain practical skills in natural language processing using the Python programming language and 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 this book both fascinating and immensely useful.