Time to start programming
I’ve been posting (infrequently) on this blog for 3 months now. Mostly I’ve been pondering problems relating to NLP and representing language in the computer. Tonight it dawned on me that I can never really even know what the challenges of NLP are until I have actually done some programming.
So I downloaded a copy of Natural Language Toolkit for Python. It has the reputation of being good for students. Python is well known for being able to quickly prototype algorithms, so I’m hoping that NLTK will be no different.
If anyone knows of a better toolkit to use for a first time NLP programmer, let me know.
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I think you nailed it. NLTK has been the best software for getting into NLP that I’ve seen.