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Natural Language Processing with Java Cookbook

By : Richard M. Reese
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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)

Detecting the natural language in use using the Google API

If the language being processed is unknown, we can use the GCP to determine the language. In this recipe, we will illustrate how to do this using the Translate class's detect method. To illustrate the process, we will use the first paragraph of the English and German Wikipedia web pages for the word language. These are shown next. The following shows the first paragraph of the English Wikipedia web page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language):

"Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system."

The following shows the first paragraph of the German Wikipedia web page (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language):

"Language ist ein Lied...