Natural Language Processing with Java

by Richard M. Reese

Explore various approaches to organize and extract useful text from unstructured data using Java 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. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an important area of application development and its relevance in addressing contemporary problems will only increase in the future. There has been a significant increase in the demand for natural language-accessible applications supported by NLP tasks. Natural Language Processing with Java will explore how to automatically organize text using approaches such as full-text search, proper name recognition, clustering, tagging, information extraction, and summarization. It covers concepts of NLP that even those of you without a background in statistics or natural language processing can understand.

Genres: Programming

237 pages, Paperback

First published March 27, 2015

Reviews

[Yury Antonov · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just a bunch of examples how to use popular nlp libraries

[Zoli]

Looks interesting, but even after finding updated links to the JAR files (only mentioned in the book...), I seem unable to complile the source code. (It is not the "import..." statements but other parts of the code are marked as erroneous.)