If you are a Java programmer who wants to learn about the fundamental tasks underlying natural language processing, this book is for you. You will be able to identify and use NLP tasks for many common problems, and integrate them in your applications to solve more difficult problems. Readers should be familiar/experienced with Java software development.
What you will learn
Develop a deep understanding of the basic NLP tasks and how they relate to each other
Discover and use the available tokenization engines
Implement techniques for end of sentence detection
Apply search techniques to find people and things within a document
Construct solutions to identify parts of speech within sentences
Use parsers to extract relationships between elements of a document
Integrate basic tasks to tackle more complex NLP problems
Who this book is for
If you are a Java programmer who wants to learn about the fundamental tasks underlying natural language processing, this book is for you. You will be able to identify and use NLP tasks for many common problems, and integrate them in your applications to solve more difficult problems. Readers should be familiar/experienced with Java software development.