Natural Language Processing with Java and LingPipe Cookbook - Softcover

Baldwin, Breck; Dayanidhi, Krishna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783284676 ISBN 13: 9781783284672

Verlag: Packt Publishing, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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.

What You Will Learn

• Master a broad range of classification techniques for text data
• Track people, concepts, and things in data, within and across documents
• Understand the importance of evaluation in creation of NLP applications and how to do it
• Yield best practices for common text-analytics problems
• Tune systems for high performance and trade off various aspects of the performance curve
• Become a master in customizing NLP systems at all levels
• Build systems for non-tokenized languages such as Chinese and Japanese

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.

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Reseña del editor

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

Biografía del autor

Breck Baldwin is the Founder and President of Alias-i/LingPipe. The company focuses on system building for customers, education for developers, and occasional forays into pure research. He has been building large-scale NLP systems since 1996. He enjoys telemark skiing and wrote DIY RC Airplanes from Scratch: The Brooklyn Aerodrome Bible for Hacking the Skies, McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics. Krishna Dayanidhi has spent most of his professional career focusing on Natural Language Processing technologies. He has built diverse systems, from a natural dialog interface for cars to Question Answering systems at (different) Fortune 500 companies. He also confesses to building those automated speech systems for very large telecommunication companies. He's an avid runner and a decent cook.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1783284676
• ISBN 13: 9781783284672
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar