I have a background in search, machine learning, and natural language processing. I have been a long-time contributor to the Apache Solar and Apache Lucene search engine projects, which are both open sourced. Then I also wrote a book called Taming Text. We're focused on solving key problems for people on the customer experience side. On the retail side, we focus really on how we can help users or consumers, both pre and post sales, to find and engage with companies and their content.

Natural Language Processing, or NLP for short, is the study of computational methods for working with speech and text data. The field is dominated by the statistical paradigm and machine learning methods are used for developing predictive models. In this post, you will discover the top books that you can read to get started with natural language processing. As practitioners, we do not always have to grab for a textbook when getting started on a new topic. Code examples in the book are in the Python programming language.