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Steven Bird is a computational linguist and researcher known for his work on the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) and linguistic data management. Ewan Klein is a professor of linguistics and informatics at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in computational semantics.

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Natural Language Processing with Python: Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit

Natural Language Processing with Python: Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit

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This book introduces the fundamentals of natural language processing (NLP) using the Python programming language and the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK). It provides practical examples and exercises for text analysis, linguistic data processing, and building language-aware applications. The authors guide readers through tokenization, tagging, parsing, and semantic interpretation, making it a comprehensive resource for both students and practitioners in computational linguistics and data science.

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Exploring Linguistic Data and Corpora

Language data is the raw material of NLP, and one of the first things you’ll learn is how to handle corpora—collections of text that represent real-world language in use. In this book, we walk you through the concept of a corpus, introducing the Brown corpus, the Gutenberg corpus, movie reviews, and...

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Lexical Resources and Word Meaning

Language isn’t just made of words; it’s made of relationships between them. That’s why we dedicate chapters to lexical semantics and resources like WordNet—a remarkable database of word meanings and relations. Here, the focus shifts from surface text to the knowledge embodied in vocabulary. We guid...

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About Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper

Steven Bird is a computational linguist and researcher known for his work on the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) and linguistic data management. Ewan Klein is a professor of linguistics and informatics at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in computational semantics. Edward Loper is a softwar...

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Steven Bird is a computational linguist and researcher known for his work on the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) and linguistic data management. Ewan Klein is a professor of linguistics and informatics at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in computational semantics. Edward Loper is a software engineer and researcher who contributed extensively to the development of NLTK.

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