In this chapter, we discussed the importance of the Python programming language for NLP and familiarized ourselves with key Python libraries and tools. We will be using these libraries and tools throughout this book, so you are encouraged to practice the code snippets provided and develop some basic level of comfort with these libraries.
In the next chapter, we will get into building the vocabulary for NLP and preprocessing text data, which is arguably the most important step for any NLP-related work.
