October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
Text analysis is a broad topic and is typically referred to as Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is used for many different tasks, including text searching, language translation, sentiment analysis, speech recognition, and classification, to mention a few. The process of analyzing can be difficult due to the particularities and ambiguity found in natural languages. However, there has been a considerable amount of work in this area and there are several Java APIs supporting this effort.
We will start with an introduction to the basic concepts and tasks used in NLP. These include the following: