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Re:Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer by coderdude on Monday November 15, 2010 @06:47PM (#1908413)
That book teaches you how to accomplish NLP tasks using NLTK, but does not teach you how to accomplish those tasks without the aid of the toolkit.
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Re:Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer by _corbett on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @08:28AM (#1909967)
I think nltk in combination with another reference is a great way to learn. You can start out with a small project, have it functional off the ground, then dig deeper.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... is excellent as is http://metaoptimize.com/qa/a stackoverflow style site which is active albeit specialized.

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Re:Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer by sunqiang on Monday November 15, 2010 @08:36PM (#1908717)
Perhaps try this instead? http://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/
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Re:Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer by riffraff on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @03:03AM (#1909466)
we have this book in the office in dead tree form and I think it is quite good, but it's not a "working programmer" text in my opinion.
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Re:Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer by HerberthAmaral on Monday November 15, 2010 @08:28PM (#1908689)
Yeah, but all theory is included :-)
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