This book offers a highly accessible introduction to Natural LanguageProcessing the field that underpins a variety of language technologies rangingfrom predicti... » 

This book offers a highly accessible introduction to Natural LanguageProcessing the field that underpins a variety of language technologies rangingfrom predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization andtranslation. With Natural Language Processing with Python youll learn how towrite programs to work with large collections of unstructured text. Youllaccess richlyannotated datasets using a comprehensive range of linguistic datastructures. And youll understand the main algorithms for analyzing the contentand structure of written communication. Perfect for individual study or as aclassroom and workshop textbook Natural Language Processing with Python willhelp you Extract information from unstructured text to guess the topic oridentify named entities Analyze linguistic structure in text includingparsing and semantic analysis Access popular linguistic databases includingWordNet and treebanks Integrate techniques drawn from fields as diverse aslinguistics and artificial intelligence You will gain practical skills inNatural Language Processing using the Python programming language and theNatural Language Toolkit NLTK open source library with the help of anengaging presentation packed with wellmotivated examples and exercises. Ifyoure interested in developing Web applications or analyzing multilingualnews sources or documenting endangered languages or if you are simply curiousto have a programmers perspective on how human language works NaturalLanguage Processing with Python will guide fascinate and open your eyes to anew perspective of humankinds crowning achievement natural language. «