Getting Started with Natural Language Processing

Essential Natural Language Processing is a hands-on guide to NLP with practical techniques you can put into action right away. By following the numerous Python-based examples and real-world case studies, you’ll apply NLP to search applications, extracting meaning from text, sentiment analysis, user profiling, and more. When you’re done, you’ll have a solid grounding in NLP that will serve as a foundation for further learning.

what's inside

Extracting information from raw text

Named entity recognition

Automating summarization of key facts

Topic labeling

Ekaterina Kochmar is an Affiliated Lecturer and a Senior Research Associate at the Natural Language and Information Processing group of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. She holds an MA degree in Computational Linguistics, an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, and a PhD in Natural Language Processing.