The available NLP libraries for C# are very less. Some of the best NLP libraries are in Python. There are few C# implementations that either are a re-write of Python’s implementations or wrappers.
If you are serious about any NLP related work in C#, use well-maintained Python implementations and integrate with C#. The wrappers / re-write’s might not have much support.
Let’s look at 2 popular libraries:
NLTK – Natural Language Toolkit
spaCy – Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing
Both the libraries are well documented and easy to use. i.e even C# developer like me can understand the python code examples provided. And very easy to experiment.
Now here are some ways of integrating with C#:
- Have a separate set of micro-services or message based applications for NLP.
- Use some of the following libraries that attempt to integrate Python with .Net
- Use System.Diagnostics.Process class i.e run the Python program as a separate process.
The integration libraries are:
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Mr. Kanti Kalyan Arumilli
B.Tech, M.B.A
Founder & CEO, Lead Full-Stack .Net developer
ALight Technology And Services Limited
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+91-789-362-6688, +1-480-347-6849, +44-07718-273-964
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kantikalyan@gmail.com, kantikalyan@outlook.com, admin@alightservices.com, kantikalyan.arumilli@alightservices.com, KArumilli2020@student.hult.edu, KantiKArumilli@outlook.com and 3 more rarely used email addresses – hardly once or twice a year.
