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Natural Language Processing with Python--New from O'Reilly
Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit

Sebastopol, CA--The term "natural language" refers to language that is used for everyday
communication by humans: languages such as English, Hindi, or Portuguese. In contrast to artificial
languages such as programming languages and mathematical notations, natural languages have evolved
as they pass from generation to generation, and are hard to pin down with explicit rules.

Technologies based on Natural Language Processing, or NLP, are becoming increasingly widespread. In
"Natural Language Processing with Python" (O'Reilly, US $44.99), authors Steven Bird, Ewan Klein,
and Edward Loper offer a highly accessible introduction to natural language processing, the field
that supports a variety of language technologies, from predictive text and email filtering to
automatic summarization and translation. Readers will learn how to write Python programs to work
with large collections of unstructured text. You'll access richly annotated datasets using a
comprehensive range of linguistic data structures, and you'll understand the main algorithms for
analyzing the content and structure of written communication.

Packed with examples and exercises, "Natural Language Processing with Python" will help you:

* Extract information from unstructured text, either to guess the topic or to identify "named
entities"
* Analyze linguistic structure in text, including parsing and semantic analysis
* Access popular linguistic databases, including WordNet and treebanks
* Integrate techniques drawn from fields as diverse as linguistics and artificial intelligence

This book will help you gain practical skills in natural language processing using the Python
programming language and the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) open source library. If you're
interested in developing web applications, analyzing multilingual news sources, or documenting
endangered languagesâ€"or if you're simply curious to have a programmer's perspective on how human
language worksâ€"you'll find "Natural Language Processing with Python" both fascinating and
immensely useful.

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Steven Bird is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
at the University of Melbourne, and Senior Research Associate in the Linguistic Data Consortium at
the University of Pennsylvania.

Ewan Klein is Professor of Language Technology in the School of Informatics at the University of
Edinburgh.

Edward Loper has recently completed a PhD on machine learning for natural language processing at
the the University of Pennsylvania. He has helped develop two packages for documenting and testing
Python software, epydoc, and doctest.

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Natural Language Processing with Python
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Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper
ISBN 10: 9780596516499, 502 pages,
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