What this book covers

Chapter 1, Tokenizing Text and WordNet Basics, covers the basics of tokenizing text and using WordNet.

Chapter 2, Replacing and Correcting Words, discusses various word replacement and correction techniques. The recipes cover the gamut of linguistic compression, spelling correction, and text normalization.

Chapter 3, Text Classification, describes a way to categorize documents or pieces of text and, by examining the word usage in a piece of text, classifiers decide what class label should be assigned to it.