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In NLP there is a large amount of boilerplate and perprocessing code. The barrier to entry is actually quite high. New machine learning model for machine transl
by bravura 17y ago
In NLP there is a large amount of boilerplate and perprocessing code. The barrier to entry is actually quite high. New machine learning model for machine translation? "Sorry I'm not convinced your model would work with a sophisticated multitext grammar using available translation lexicons etc etc".
Building a convincing baseline is hard. Which means that it is difficult to show your approach works in general
- jlees 17y agoThe Python NLTK helps a fair bit with some of that, especially at an introductory level. Of course, I hand-wrote a lot of my NLP algorithms in Perl, back in the day. Now that's a good use of a time machine...
- the_real_r2d2 17y agoFor beginners there is also an on-line book: http://www.nltk.org/book http://www.nltk.org/book
- jlees 17y agoAs well as a printed version, published by O'Reilly, for those of you who prefer dead trees to pixels (like me).