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Python Natural Language Processing

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Python Natural Language Processing

Overview of this book

This book starts off by laying the foundation for Natural Language Processing and why Python is one of the best options to build an NLP-based expert system with advantages such as Community support, availability of frameworks and so on. Later it gives you a better understanding of available free forms of corpus and different types of dataset. After this, you will know how to choose a dataset for natural language processing applications and find the right NLP techniques to process sentences in datasets and understand their structure. You will also learn how to tokenize different parts of sentences and ways to analyze them. During the course of the book, you will explore the semantic as well as syntactic analysis of text. You will understand how to solve various ambiguities in processing human language and will come across various scenarios while performing text analysis. You will learn the very basics of getting the environment ready for natural language processing, move on to the initial setup, and then quickly understand sentences and language parts. You will learn the power of Machine Learning and Deep Learning to extract information from text data. By the end of the book, you will have a clear understanding of natural language processing and will have worked on multiple examples that implement NLP in the real world.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Advantages of togetherness - NLP and Python

The following points illustrate why Python is one of the best options to build an NLP-based expert system:

  • Developing prototypes for the NLP-based expert system using Python is very easy and efficient
  • A large variety of open source NLP libraries are available for Python programmers
  • Community support is very strong
  • Easy to use and less complex for beginners
  • Rapid development: testing, and evaluation are easy and less complex
  • Many of the new frameworks, such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, TensorFlow, and so on, provide API for Python
  • Optimization of the NLP-based system is less complex compared to other programming paradigms