Getting Started with Python/CLTK for Historical Languages
This is a ongoing project to collect online resources for anybody looking to get started with working with Python for historical languages, esp. using the Classical Language Toolkit. If you have suggestions for this lists, email me at patrick[at]diyclassics[dot]org.
- Getting started with NLP, practice: Bird/Klein/Loper, Natural Language Processing with Python (“NLTK Book”): http://nltk.org/book/, esp. Chs. 1-7; good exercises too; Ch. 4 is a good introduction to Python in general
- Getting started with NLP, theory (not Python specific): Jurafsky/Manning, Stanford Intro to NLP course videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfoudtpBV68
- A-to-Z text analysis tutorial: Riddell, Text Analysis with Topic Models for the Humanities and Social Sciences: https://de.dariah.eu/tatom/index.html (not really intro, but really helpful to me over time)
- Python programming, as an idea: Downey, Think Python: http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython2/html/index.html; good text-focused exercises
- Classical Language Toolkit has its own tutorial page: github.com/cltk/tutorials
- J. Tauber’s blog/github repo has lots of great Python/Greek work http://jktauber.com & https://github.com/jtauber?tab=repositories
- My own Python/Latin/CLTK experiments can be found at the Disiecta Membra blog: http://disiectamembra.wordpress.com
- D. Sturgeon’s Digital Sinology tutorials come to mind for Python/Classical Chinese text work: https://digitalsinology.org/classical-chinese-digital-humanities/
Based on the following Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/diyclassics/status/951499464799346688.
Patrick J. Burns
Digital Classicist