Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important frontiers in software. The basic idea—how to consume and generate human language effectively—has been an ongoing effort since the dawn of digital computing. The effort continues today, with machine learning and graph databases on the frontlines of the effort to master natural language.
This article is a hands-on introduction to Apache OpenNLP, a Java-based machine learning project that delivers primitives like chunking and lemmatization, both required for building NLP-enabled systems.
