Chapter 1. Working with Strings
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is concerned with the interaction between natural language and the computer. It is one of the major components of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computational linguistics. It provides a seamless interaction between computers and human beings and gives computers the ability to understand human speech with the help of machine learning. The fundamental data type used to represent the contents of a file or a document in programming languages (for example, C, C++, JAVA, Python, and so on) is known as string. In this chapter, we will explore various operations that can be performed on strings that will be useful to accomplish various NLP tasks.
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