Natural Language Processing with Python [pdf, 491 pages]

mattoufoutu.rafale.org

56 points·coderdude··7 comments

Looks like pirated content to me. We could talk all day about that, but bottom line: this kind of link doesn't belong on Hacker News imho.

From http://www.nltk.org/book

"This book is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works 3.0 US License"

In that format though. I'm aware of a few Apress books that are CC licensed but it seems that the actual published PDFs are not. Copyright attributed to covers etc.

Yeah, I've also seen O'Reilly books where they did allow people to distribute the "official" typeset pdf:

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/

But I think at worst, this link would be gray-market rather than black market. Of course the original link has no context, so I can see why the OP expressed concern.

Weird that they would charge $34 for an ebook when it is also available free online though, does their formatting really add that much value? I guess may would pay that price without knowing it is also available free online, personally I'd rather make a donation to the author than pay O'Reilly.

The NLTK Cookbook is also great.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1849513600

I'm guessing everyone wants a personal Watson now.

Might as well include a few machine learning packages:

PyML: http://pyml.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html

Monte: http://montepython.sourceforge.net/ http://learning.cs.toronto.edu/~rfm/montepython/monte.pdf

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