Natural Language Processing with Java and LingPipe Cookbook

Over 60 effective recipes to develop your Natural Language Processing (NLP) skills quickly and effectively

About This Book

• Build effective natural language processing applications
• Transit from ad-hoc methods to advanced machine learning techniques
• Use advanced techniques such as logistic regression, conditional random fields, and latent Dirichlet allocation

Who This Book Is For

This book is for experienced Java developers with NLP needs, whether academics, industrialists, or hobbyists. A basic knowledge of NLP terminology will be beneficial.

In Detail

NLP is at the core of web search, intelligent personal assistants, marketing, and much more, and LingPipe is a toolkit for processing text using computational linguistics.

This book starts with the foundational but powerful techniques of language identification, sentiment classifiers, and evaluation frameworks. It goes on to detail how to build a robust framework to solve common NLP problems, before ending with advanced techniques for complex heterogeneous NLP systems.

This is a recipe and tutorial book for experienced Java developers with NLP needs. A basic knowledge of NLP terminology will be beneficial. This book will guide you through the process of how to build NLP apps with minimal fuss and maximal impact.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Simple Classifiers
Chapter 2. Finding and Working with Words
Chapter 3. Advanced Classifiers
Chapter 4. Tagging Words and Tokens
Chapter 5. Finding Spans in Text – Chunking
Chapter 6. String Comparison and Clustering
Chapter 7. Finding Coreference Between Concepts/People