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This is an ickle collection of tutorials on using Python for doing interesting stuff with (human!) languages. They are posted initially on Hacklog, the Blogamundo developer blog, and then moved here, where they are endlessly tweaked to remove embarrassing errors improve clarity. In theory they should be doable by folks with no programming background, or just a little.

In this installment, David introduces you to the Natural Language Toolkit, a Python library for applying academic linguistic techniques to collections of textual data. Programming that goes by the name "text processing" is a start; other capabilities for syntactic and even semantic analysis are further specialized to studying natural languages.