NaturalLanguageToolkit

NLTKisaleadingplatformforbuildingPythonprogramstoworkwithhumanlanguagedata.Itprovideseasy-to-useinterfacesto over50corporaandlexicalresources suchasWordNet,alongwithasuiteoftextprocessinglibrariesforclassification,tokenization,stemming,tagging,parsing,andsemanticreasoning,wrappersforindustrial-strengthNLPlibraries,andanactive discussionforum.

Thankstoahands-onguideintroducingprogrammingfundamentalsalongsidetopicsincomputationallinguistics,pluscomprehensiveAPIdocumentation,NLTKissuitableforlinguists,engineers,students,educators,researchers,andindustryusersalike.NLTKisavailableforWindows,MacOSX,andLinux.Bestofall,NLTKisafree,opensource,community-drivenproject.

NLTKhasbeencalled“awonderfultoolforteaching,andworkingin,computationallinguisticsusingPython,”and“anamazinglibrarytoplaywithnaturallanguage.”

NaturalLanguageProcessingwithPython providesapracticalintroductiontoprogrammingforlanguageprocessing.WrittenbythecreatorsofNLTK,itguidesthereaderthroughthefundamentalsofwritingPythonprograms,workingwithcorpora,categorizingtext,analyzinglinguisticstructure,andmore.TheonlineversionofthebookhasbeenbeenupdatedforPython3andNLTK3.(TheoriginalPython2versionisstillavailableat https://www.nltk.org/book_1ed.)