Natural Language Processing with Python

Posted by tripwire45 on Nov 28, 2009 9:32 PM EDT
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According to the blurb on the book's back cover, "This book offers 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". Putting it all together, this book teaches the reader how to do something highly specific and practical with the Python programming language. I put it this way because there are many books out there that will teach you how to learn Python, or some other programming language, which includes learning various typical tasks, but they don't teach you where to go next.

You've probably read various "adverts" about Python saying that YouTube, George Lucas's Industry Light and Magic, and the SSL certificate company Thawte, among others, have built their success on Python, attempting to induce developers to learn and use Python (assuming they don't do so already). Here we have a book that says something like, "This is what we use Python for and you can learn to do the same thing with Python", again, assuming that you need to do such a thing.



If you read the entire Wikipedia article about NLP at the link posted earlier in this review, you'll see that this is a very dynamic field with many applications, so writing a book on the topic and supporting the use of Python for NLP is a very reasonable thing to do. If you're involved in NLP in any manner or fashion, you might want to have a look. The Preface states that the book serves a wide range of people who need to "learn to write programs that analyze written language regardless of previous programming experience".

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