Google NLP API Alternatives

Google no longer allows free usage of their API...need an alternative

[BostonNole]

Hello!

I use Google's NLP tool for entity analysis and content categorization. I run the content of my site vs. competitors to determine how Google's ML may interpret what my content is about.

Up until today, Google provided a demo of their NLP tool here:https://cloud.google.com/natural-language

It's gone now and the pricing model is actually pretty expensive. Does anyone here have a favorite NLP tool? Obviously free is preferable but something cheaper than $3-6 per test is a must.

Thanks so much!

[engine]

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I guess the demo was being used by many and Google's probably closed that door for over-use.

I took a look at the pricing and I see there's still options for free, unless Google hasn't updated the pricing page. [cloud.google.com...]

[not2easy]

There are open source NLP setups, one from Apache.org though it might be a tool you would need to set up and not offered as API services. There are others but it is not something I use, just noticed in passing so I have no recommendations.

Google has been known to set up things for public use while they analyze usage and sharpen things and then move to a paid model.

[NickMNS]

If you know how to code in Python, the NLTK package which I believe is the most commonly used NLP software package. But it doesn't provide pre-trained models so you will need to train your own. But it does provide access to several high quality corpora (plural or corpus, yes I had to look that up.).
[nltk.org...]

If you want to learn more about NLP they offer a free how-to book.
[nltk.org...]