I have a feeling that's because a great deal of NLP use is either proprietary or academic. It's either buried away in a combination of academic papers and acade

I have a feeling that's because a great deal of NLP use is either proprietary or academic. It's either buried away in a combination of academic papers and academic heads or hidden away in a corporate codebase the world doesn't have access to. The best way as far as I'm aware of to get into NLP is to take a course at a university. My university (University of Melbourne) was lucky to have an undergraduate subject taught by one of the lead authors of NLTK (Stephen Bird) and that was a great help. You can even take the subject on its own without enrolling in a full course. Plus there are books on it. One of the main ones I'm aware of (by Bird) is http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/natural-language-processing-with-python-1st-edition-9780596516499-0596516495 http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/natural-language-processing-w...