for a overview of the way a lot of OpenNLP tools works.
The name used in research for "extracting knowledge out of text" is typically information extraction. Looks like there are some book on amazon which cover this topic pretty well, but I don't have any personal experience with any of them.
Hi.
I would like to learn more about NLP, specifically for use in extracting knowledge out of text.
Do you have any pointers to good books about it?
Thanks
Ian
Hi,
I don't have a specific suggestion. I usually point people to:
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/ircs/tr/98-15/98-15.ps.gz
for a overview of the way a lot of OpenNLP tools works.
The name used in research for "extracting knowledge out of text" is typically information extraction. Looks like there are some book on amazon which cover this topic pretty well, but I don't have any personal experience with any of them.
You might also look at: http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/
Hope this helps...Tom
It does.
Thanks.
nothing like getting flung into a project where you don't even know the right terms to discuss things with people is there ;-)
Well...it's a Python book, not Java: the book, and other reading materials can be downloaded at http://nltk.sourceforge.net/.
Also, thre is a free online book at http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~hinrich/information-retrieval-book.html (scroll down the page to HTML or PDF edition). Corresponding lecture notes are at
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs276/cs276-2006-syllabus.html
A set of nice introductory lectures by hearst i found were on http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is290-2/f04/sched.html