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Python Natural Language Processing

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Python Natural Language Processing

Overview of this book

This book starts off by laying the foundation for Natural Language Processing and why Python is one of the best options to build an NLP-based expert system with advantages such as Community support, availability of frameworks and so on. Later it gives you a better understanding of available free forms of corpus and different types of dataset. After this, you will know how to choose a dataset for natural language processing applications and find the right NLP techniques to process sentences in datasets and understand their structure. You will also learn how to tokenize different parts of sentences and ways to analyze them. During the course of the book, you will explore the semantic as well as syntactic analysis of text. You will understand how to solve various ambiguities in processing human language and will come across various scenarios while performing text analysis. You will learn the very basics of getting the environment ready for natural language processing, move on to the initial setup, and then quickly understand sentences and language parts. You will learn the power of Machine Learning and Deep Learning to extract information from text data. By the end of the book, you will have a clear understanding of natural language processing and will have worked on multiple examples that implement NLP in the real world.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Some of the facts related to word2vec

Here are some of the facts about the word2vec models that you should keep in mind when you are actually using it:

  • So far, you will have realized that word2vec uses neural networks and this neural network is not a deep neural network. It only has two layers, but it works very well to find out the words similarity.
  • Word2vec neural network uses a simple logistic activation function that does not use non-linear functions.
  • The activation function of the hidden layer is simply linear because it directly passes its weighted sum of inputs to the next layer.

Now, we have seen almost all the major aspects of word2vec, so in the next section, we will look at the application of word2vec.