Python: A Simple Tutorial
Python: A Simple Tutorial
Slides by Matt Huenerfauth
Python
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Python is an open source scripting language.
Developed by Guido van Rossum in the early 1990s
Named after Monty Python
Available on lab computers
Available for download from
Why Python?
? Very Object Oriented
? Python much less verbose than Java
? NLP Processing: Symbolic
? Python has built-in datatypes for strings, lists, and more.
? NLP Processing: Statistical
? Python has strong numeric processing capabilities: matrix
operations, etc.
? Suitable for probability and machine learning code.
? NLTK: Natural Language Tool Kit
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Widely used for teaching NLP
First developed for this course
Implemented as a set of Python modules
Provides adequate libraries for many NLP building blocks
? Google ¡°NLTK¡± for more info, code, data sets, book..
The Power of NLTK & Good Libraries
Technical Issues
Installing & Running Python
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