On my personal site I have a full review for Packt’s new Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook (Packt, 2010). NLTK is the excellent Natural Language Toolkit.
The book is a cookbook with a huge set of recipes for NLTK. It makes for a great companion for the original O’Reilly NLTK book. Rather than repost it I’ll simply direct you back to my blog – my post has links for all the major topics and tools.
I’m a new guy here in NLP, I kinda wonder it is still necessary to read the classic book “Text Processing With Python” even if we now have NLTK ?
Can I dive into “Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook” directly or “Text Processing with Python”?
You can use them independently, I find Text Processing with NLTK to be more useful as it is more of a reference manual.