Preface
The field of natural language processing bewitched me as soon as I came to know about it nearly 10 years ago, while studying for my master’s degree. The promise that computers could help us understand the (already, even then) vast amount of textual documents in existence sounded like magic. I still remember how exciting it was to see my first NLP programs extract even vaguely correct and useful information from a few text documents.
About the same time, at work, I was asked to do some consulting for a customer on their new open source search architecture. My colleague, who was an expert in the field, was busy on another project, so I was given a copy of Lucene in Action,[1] which I studied for a couple of weeks; then I was sent out ...
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