[Editor's preface to the second edition: notgettingenough read the first edition of this review and complained that it was all Geek to her. I have amended it accordingly]POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord?HAMLET: Words, words, words.Hamlet was evidently interested in textual analysis, and if the Py...
Excellent intro to both Python programming and NLP. Assumes no prior familiarity with either, so this is a good book both for beginning CS students who know little to nothing about linguistics, and for beginning linguists who have no programming experience.