Natural Language Processing with Python

Luciano Guasco is going to give an introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python.

Outline:

• What does NLP mean from a practical perspective?

-Intro

-Basic tasks: Tokenization, Stemming, POS Tagging, Synonyms.

-Examples

-Open Problems

• Why Python to process language?

-Personal experience of migration

-Fast review of Python operations

-NLTK, a NLP Swiss Army knife : Using the library for Tokenization, Stemming, POS Tagging, Synonyms, Grammar Parsing.

-Extending text processing: Some Datamining & Machine Learning concepts, and how to use them with language and text

• Let's Code: Some basic and advanced examples!

Scheduled time: 2 hours with a 15 minutes break

Visit the NLTK home page if you want to get a quick impression of what Python has to offer in this area: http://www.nltk.org/

Disclaimer: "I am not a professional in the linguistic area, but I am a Computer Scientist exploring the AI field for some time. Given the opportunity in this MeetUp, I want to share what I have learned and practiced with language processing, and why I chose Python as my 'friend' for this task" Luciano.