Natural Language Processing with Python
by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper
Publisher: O'Reilly Media 2009
ISBN/ASIN: 0596516495
ISBN-13: 9780596516499
Number of pages: 512
Description:
This book offers a highly accessible introduction to natural language processing, the field that supports a variety of language technologies, from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and 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, and you'll understand the main algorithms for analyzing the content and structure of written communication.
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