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garysieling · 2016-11-10 · Original thread
Wow, thanks for mentioning my blog! I got into this using "Natural Language Processing with Python", which is basically an intro textbook for NLP that uses NLTK.

I particularly like that they include example exercises in each chapter, because it can be otherwise challenging to see how particular techniques are useful.

https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Language-Processing-Python-An...