This tutorial is intended for NLP novices who want to gain a high-level understanding of the field and whet their appetites with a bit of code. No prior knowledge of NLP is necessary. Familiarity with basic Python syntax and prior installation of the nltk library is recommended.

This tutorial will provide an overview of what NLP is, why it's useful, as well as several major NLP libraries and topics. You'll also have the opportunity to get hands-on with some basic NLP methods using Python.

You can access files, etc. at this GitHub repo: https://github.com/marielfrank/pydatanyc_2019

Here are the slide from the tutorial.