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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen all the details related to the rule-based system and how the rule-based approach helps us to develop rapid prototypes for complex problems with high accuracy. We have seen the architecture of the rule-based system. We have learned about the advantages, disadvantages, and challenges for the rule-based system. We have seen how this system is helpful to us for developing NLP applications such as grammar correction systems, chatbots, and so on. We have also discussed the recent trends for the rule-based system.

In the next chapter, we will learn the other main approaches called machine learning, to solve NLP applications. The upcoming chapter will give you all the details about which machine learning algorithms you need to use for developing NLP applications. We will see supervised ML, semi-supervised ML, and unsupervised ML techniques. We will...