Natural Language Processing with Python
By Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper
This is a book about Natural Language Processing. By “natural language” we mean a language that is used for everyday communication by humans; languages like English, Hindi or Portuguese. In contrast to artificial languages such as programming languages and mathematical notations, natural languages have evolved as they pass from generation to generation, and are hard to pin down with explicit rules. We will take Natural Language Processing — or NLP for short — in a wide sense to cover any kind of computer manipulation of natural language.