Complete NLTK Tutorial
NLTK is a library in Python for processing the language spoken and written by humans. NLTK stands for Natural Language Processing, Natural Language is the language written and spoken by human beings. NLTK for English Language is well developed and comes with many libraries which makes it easy to process English Language. In this tutorial we will provide you many tutorials and examples of Natural Language Processing using the famous Python NLTK library.
NLTK is very popular library for Natural Language Processing and this library is available in Python for all major platforms. You easily it on Windows, Linux, Mac etc.. along with the Python library. Python programming language is used for writing Natural Language Processing Program in NLTK API. With NLTK API programs are developed for NLP (Natural Language Process) which can understand human language. For it can be used to read Twitter posts and figure out if the post is given positive for a product or its just a negative post regarding that product. This way companies can track Twitter and Social posts to find out customer sentiment.
NLP is very powerful technology for developing applications for performing various types of text analysis activities such as:
- Speech Recognition - Write applications to
recognize the speech.
- Speech Translation - Translate Speech
from one language to another
- Understanding Complete Sentences -
Program can understand complete sentence and then take action.
- Understanding Synonyms of Matching Words -
Its another good use of NLP.
- Writing Complete Grammatically Correct Sentences - You can write program that can write grammatically correct sentences at a speed of machine.
So, there are lot of uses of NLP in current time as we have huge processing power due to Big Data and clustering technologies.
Pre requisite to learn NLTK
For NLTK you should have prior programming experience in Python programming language. You should know syntax and semantics of Python programming language. At 6 months of prior programming experience in Python programming is required. But if you programming experience in Java and other programming language then also you can learn Python programming language. After learning Python start learning NLP with NLTK.
Here are tutorials of NLTL