Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer
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Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Oct 31, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 1 check on 1 different day. Its best position was #21 of 25, reached on Oct 31, 19:21 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 31, 19:21 UTC.
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The choice of Haskell as the example language seems rather odd to me. If the book is meant for the "working programmer", why burden the reader with learning Haskell in addition to learning NLP? Python has very good libraries for natural language processing and most programmers either know it or could pick it up…
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#21 on Lobsters · Hottest, on Oct 31, 19:21 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 30 minutes.
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