Summary

This chapter gave you an introduction to NLP. You now have a brief idea about what kind of branches are involved in NLP and the various stages for building an expert system using NLP concepts. Lastly, we set up the environment for NLTK. All the installation guidelines and codes are available on GitHub.

In the next chapter, we will see what kind of corpus is used on NLP-related applications and what all the critical points we should keep in mind are when we analyze a corpus. We will deal with the different types of file formats and datasets. Let's explore this together!