8 Summary Modeling the linguistic data found in corpora can help us to understand linguistic patterns, and can be used to make predictions about...
8 Summary Words can be grouped into classes, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. These classes are known as lexical categories or parts...
4.9 Summary Python's assignment and parameter passing use object references; e.g. if a is a list and we assign b = a, then any operation on a will...
3.10 Summary In this book we view a text as a list of words. A "raw text" is a potentially long string containing words and whitespace formatting,...
NLTK stands for Natural Language Toolkit, it is a platform used for building Python programs to work with humans' natural language data. By "natural...
1 Accessing Text Corpora A text corpus is a large body of text. Many corpora are designed to contain a careful balance of material in one or more...