You're reading from Dancing with Python Learn to code with Python and Quantum Computing

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801077859

Length 744 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Robert S. Sutor

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Doing the Things That Coders Do

2. Part I: Getting to Know Python FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Working with Expressions

4. Chapter 3: Collecting Things Together

5. Chapter 4: Stringing You Along

6. Chapter 5: Computing and Calculating

7. Chapter 6: Defining and Using Functions

8. Chapter 7: Organizing Objects into Classes

9. Chapter 8: Working with Files

10. PART II: Algorithms and Circuits

11. Chapter 9: Understanding Gates and Circuits

12. Chapter 10: Optimizing and Testing Your Code

13. Chapter 11: Searching for the Quantum Improvement

14. PART III: Advanced Features and Libraries

15. Chapter 12: Searching and Changing Text

16. Chapter 13: Creating Plots and Charts

17. Chapter 14: Analyzing Data

18. Chapter 15: Learning, Briefly

19. References

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Appendices

1. Appendix A: Tools

2. Appendix B: Staying Current

3. Appendix C: The Complete UniPoly Class

4. Appendix D: The Complete Guitar Class Hierarchy

5. Appendix E: Notices

6. Appendix F: Production Notes

12.3 Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP) takes text and its contained characters to meaning. From meaning, we get knowledge and insights and possibly take action. This section surveys some of the tools available to you in Python to do NLP. Please follow the references to find more information and examples about the specific tools.

Suppose I stand in my kitchen and say,

“I'm making more fried green tomatoes.”

How does that translate into my cooking the food?

The first step is knowing if anyone or anything is listening to me, but that’s not a coding issue. Perhaps, my daughter is with me in the kitchen, or a virtual personal assistant (VPA) like Apple’s Siri^®, Amazon’s Echo^® with Alexa^®, Google Home™, or Microsoft Cortana^®.