Chapter 1. Introduction to NLP
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a broad topic focused on the use of computers to analyze natural languages. It addresses areas such as speech processing, relationship extraction, document categorization, and summation of text. However, these types of analysis are based on a set of fundamental techniques such as tokenization, sentence detection, classification, and extracting relationships. These basic techniques are the focus of this book. We will start with a detailed discussion of NLP, investigate why it is important, and identify application areas.
There are many tools available that support NLP tasks. We will focus on the Java language and how various Java Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) support ...
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