Natural language processing with Python

✍ Scribed by Edward Loper, Steven Bird, Ewan Klein

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 479
• Edition: 1st edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is an introduction to natural language processing, which supports a variety of language technologies, from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and translation.

Abstract:

Offers an 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. This book helps you learn how to write Python programs to work with large collections of unstructured text.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Language processing and Python --
Accessing text corpora and lexical resources --
Processing raw text --
Writing structured programs --
Categorizing and tagging words --
Learning to classify text --
Extracting information from text --
Analyzing sentence structure --
Building feature-based grammars --
Analyzing the meaning of sentences --
Managing linguistic data --
Afterword: The language challenge.

✦ Subjects

Python (Computer program language);Natural language processing (Computer science);Sprachverarbeitung;Python;Python (programspråk);Språk -- databehandling.