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Re: Natural Language Processing with Python, free online

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Post by scorpion032 »

LinkGrammar: http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/ is the other NLP tool kit in python, may be suited for use by those who might be intimidated by the need to write their own grammar.

It is integrated into and maintained by the authors of Abiword. There is a talk on this other library at Pycon, this year: https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/187/

Re: Natural Language Processing with Python, free online

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Post by mullr »

scorpion032 wrote: post #3

LinkGrammar: http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/ is the other NLP tool kit in python, may be suited for use by those who might be intimidated by the need to write their own grammar. It is integrated into and maintained by the authors of Abiword. There is a talk on this other library at Pycon, this year: https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/187/

LinkGrammar looks very interesting and useful. But I believe that its scope is somewhat smaller than NLTK. Aside from sentence parsing, NLTK also gives you a bunch of tools for document tokenization, statistical analysis, classification, and some easily accesible corpora to try it all out on. I'd almost call it a natural language prototyping environment; it's a huge time-saver to those dabbling in the field or who need to quickly experiment with different techniques.

Re: Natural Language Processing with Python, free online

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Post by ObnoxiousJul »

drstrangevibes wrote: post #2

oooooh , this has just made my day!

only the REST api is open source.

I see the book as a way to sell their API for a service for which everything (algorithm and methods) are obfuscated (server side).

I expected much insights for helping me on a project, I had less informations and more noise than what I already knew.

Re: Natural Language Processing with Python, free online

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Post by knowtheory »

ObnoxiousJul wrote: post #7
drstrangevibes wrote: post #2

oooooh , this has just made my day!

only the REST api is open source. I see the book as a way to sell their API for a service for which everything (algorithm and methods) are obfuscated (server side). I expected much insights for helping me on a project, I had less informations and more noise than what I already knew.

What on earth do you mean?

The entirety of NLTK is FOSS originally produced by a university. Even if NLTK had some sort of hosted version (and I was unaware that if they do, as your post seems to claim), you could always go D/L the whole source (https://github.com/nltk/nltk ) and use it as you see fit (it's even Apache Licensed).

Re: Natural Language Processing with Python, free online

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Post by [deleted] »

ObnoxiousJul wrote: post #7
drstrangevibes wrote: post #2

oooooh , this has just made my day!

only the REST api is open source. I see the book as a way to sell their API for a service for which everything (algorithm and methods) are obfuscated (server side). I expected much insights for helping me on a project, I had less informations and more noise than what I already knew.

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Re: Natural Language Processing with Python, free online

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Post by nailer »

I own the paper version of this - just a heads up, it's written primary for Language Scientists rather than developers. You may find yourself constantly pausing and looking up concepts and their meanings / practical uses on linguistics websites when returning to the book.

It's a great resource, but don't expect to get started quickly.

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