Workshop#1 Basics of Natural Language Toolkit (Hour 1–2)

With the basic NLP concept being learnt in Chap. 1 , this introductory workshop gives a NLTK overview and system installation procedures are the foundations of Python NLP development tool used for text processing which include simple text analysis, text analysis with lexical dispersion plot, text tokenization, and basic statistical tools in NLP. This workshop explores NLP basics including: (1) Concepts and installation procedures; (2) Text processing function with examples using NLTK; (3) Text analysis lexical dispersion plot in Python; (4) Tokenization in text analysis; (5) Statistical tools for text analysis.