About the Author

Jacob Perkins is the cofounder and CTO of Weotta, a local search company. Weotta uses NLP and machine learning to create powerful and easy-to-use natural language search for what to do and where to go.

He is the author of Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook, Packt Publishing, and has contributed a chapter to the Bad Data Handbook, O'Reilly Media. He writes about NLTK, Python, and other technology topics at http://streamhacker.com.

To demonstrate the capabilities of NLTK and natural language processing, he developed http://text-processing.com, which provides simple demos and NLP APIs for commercial use. He has contributed to various open source projects, including NLTK, and created NLTK-Trainer to simplify the process of training NLTK models. For more information, visit https://github.com/japerk/nltk-trainer.

I would like to thank my friends and family for their part in making this book possible. And thanks to the editors and reviewers at Packt Publishing for their helpful feedback and suggestions. Finally, this book wouldn't be possible without the fantastic NLTK project and team: http://www.nltk.org/.