Over 80 practical recipes on natural language processing techniques using Python's NLTK 3.0
About This Book

Break text down into its component parts for spelling correction, feature extraction, and phrase transformation

Learn how to do custom sentiment analysis and named entity recognition

Work through the natural language processing concepts with simple and easy-to-follow programming recipes

In Detail

This book will show you the essential techniques of text and language processing. Starting with tokenization, stemming, and the WordNet dictionary, you'll progress to part-of-speech tagging, phrase chunking, and named entity recognition. You'll learn how various text corpora are organized, as well as how to create your own custom corpus. Then, you'll move onto text classification with a focus on sentiment analysis. And because NLP can be computationally expensive on large bodies of text, you'll try a few methods for distributed text processing. Finally, you'll be introduced to a number of other small but complementary Python libraries for text analysis, cleaning, and parsing.

This cookbook provides simple, straightforward examples so you can quickly learn text processing with Python and NLTK.
What You Will Learn

Tokenize text into sentences, and sentences into words

Look up words in the WordNet dictionary

Apply spelling correction and word replacement

Access the built-in text corpora and create your own custom corpus

Tag words with parts of speech

Chunk phrases and recognize named entities

Grammatically transform phrases and chunks

Classify text and perform sentiment analysis