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Overview of text processing tasks
Although there are numerous NLP tasks that can be performed, we will focus only on a
subset of these tasks. A brief overview of these tasks is presented here, which is also reflec-
ted in the following chapters:
• Finding Parts of Text
• Finding Sentences
• Finding People and Things
• Detecting Parts of Speech
• Classifying Text and Documents
• Extracting Relationships
• Combined Approaches
Many of these tasks are used together with other tasks to achieve some objective. We will
see this as we progress through the topic. For example, tokenization is frequently used as
an initial step in many of the other tasks. It is a fundamental and basic step.
