Natural Language Processing with Python
by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper · Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper
Introduction to text processing built around the NLTK library, covering tokenization, tagging, classification, chunking, and parsing with worked Python examples. Readers finish able to write programs that analyse corpora and extract structured information from raw text.
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