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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)

Machine Learning for NLP Problems

We have seen the basic and the advanced levels of feature engineering. We have also seen how rule-based systems can be used to develop NLP applications. In this chapter, we will develop NLP applications, and to develop the applications, we will use machine learning (ML) algorithms. We will begin with the basics of ML. After this, we will see the basic development steps of NLP applications that use ML. We will mostly see how to use ML algorithms in the NLP domain. Then, we will move towards the features selection section. We will also take a look at hybrid models and post-processing techniques.

This is the outline of this chapter given as follows:

  • Understanding the basics of machine learning
  • Development steps for NLP application
  • Understanding ML algorithms and other concepts
  • Hybrid approaches for NLP applications

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