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Part II: Working with Text in Python
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Part II introduces you to working with text using the Python programming language.

After reading through this section, you should be able to:

- understand how computers process and store text
- how to load text into Python for processing and save the results
- know basic tasks in natural language processing and the kinds of annotations they produce
- how to evaluate the performance of natural language processing algorithms
- how to store texts and prepare them for further analysis

**Tutorials on YouTube**

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**Table of Contents**

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   :maxdepth: 3

   notebooks/part_ii/01_basic_text_processing.ipynb
   notebooks/part_ii/02_basic_text_processing_continued.ipynb
   notebooks/part_ii/03_basic_nlp.ipynb
   notebooks/part_ii/04_basic_nlp_continued.ipynb
   notebooks/part_ii/05_evaluating_nlp.ipynb
   notebooks/part_ii/06_managing_data.ipynb