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Natural Language Processing with Java Cookbook

By : Richard M. Reese
Book Image

Natural Language Processing with Java Cookbook

By: Richard M. Reese

Overview of this book

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become one of the prime technologies for processing very large amounts of unstructured data from disparate information sources. This book includes a wide set of recipes and quick methods that solve challenges in text syntax, semantics, and speech tasks. At the beginning of the book, you'll learn important NLP techniques, such as identifying parts of speech, tagging words, and analyzing word semantics. You will learn how to perform lexical analysis and use machine learning techniques to speed up NLP operations. With independent recipes, you will explore techniques for customizing your existing NLP engines/models using Java libraries such as OpenNLP and the Stanford NLP library. You will also learn how to use NLP processing features from cloud-based sources, including Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS). You will master core tasks, such as stemming, lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging, and named entity recognition. You will also learn about sentiment analysis, semantic text similarity, language identification, machine translation, and text summarization. By the end of this book, you will be ready to become a professional NLP expert using a problem-solution approach to analyze any sort of text, sentence, or semantic word.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Finding co-references in a sentence

Co-reference is the term used to describe certain types of relationships between words of a document, for example, in the following sentence:

Tom was the tallest in his class. He was also the oldest.

There is a co-reference relationship between Tom and He. Both words refer to the same person. In this recipe, we will demonstrate how co-references can be identified within sentences using the Stanford NLP API.

Getting ready

To prepare, we need to do the following:

  1. Create a new Maven project
  2. Add the following dependency to the POM file:
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/edu.stanford.nlp/stanford-corenlp -->
<dependency>
<groupId>edu.stanford.nlp</groupId>
...