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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook

Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition

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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook

Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook

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By: Jacob Perkins

Overview of this book

This book is intended for Python programmers interested in learning how to do natural language processing. Maybe you’ve learned the limits of regular expressions the hard way, or you’ve realized that human language cannot be deterministically parsed like a computer language. Perhaps you have more text than you know what to do with, and need automated ways to analyze and structure that text. This Cookbook will show you how to train and use statistical language models to process text in ways that are practically impossible with standard programming tools. A basic knowledge of Python and the basic text processing concepts is expected. Some experience with regular expressions will also be helpful.
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Introduction

Natural Language ToolKit (NLTK) is a comprehensive Python library for natural language processing and text analytics. Originally designed for teaching, it has been adopted in the industry for research and development due to its usefulness and breadth of coverage. NLTK is often used for rapid prototyping of text processing programs and can even be used in production applications. Demos of select NLTK functionality and production-ready APIs are available at http://text-processing.com.

This chapter will cover the basics of tokenizing text and using WordNet. Tokenization is a method of breaking up a piece of text into many pieces, such as sentences and words, and is an essential first step for recipes in the later chapters. WordNet is a dictionary designed for programmatic access by natural language processing systems. It has many different use cases, including:

  • Looking up the definition of a word
  • Finding synonyms and antonyms
  • Exploring word relations and similarity
  • Word sense disambiguation for words that have multiple uses and definitions

NLTK includes a WordNet corpus reader, which we will use to access and explore WordNet. A corpus is just a body of text, and corpus readers are designed to make accessing a corpus much easier than direct file access. We'll be using WordNet again in the later chapters, so it's important to familiarize yourself with the basics first.

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