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Java: Data Science Made Easy

By : Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Alexey Grigorev
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Java: Data Science Made Easy

By: Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Alexey Grigorev

Overview of this book

Data science is concerned with extracting knowledge and insights from a wide variety of data sources to analyse patterns or predict future behaviour. It draws from a wide array of disciplines including statistics, computer science, mathematics, machine learning, and data mining. In this course, we cover the basic as well as advanced data science concepts and how they are implemented using the popular Java tools and libraries.The course starts with an introduction of data science, followed by the basic data science tasks of data collection, data cleaning, data analysis, and data visualization. This is followed by a discussion of statistical techniques and more advanced topics including machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning. You will examine the major categories of data analysis including text, visual, and audio data, followed by a discussion of resources that support parallel implementation. Throughout this course, the chapters will illustrate a challenging data science problem, and then go on to present a comprehensive, Java-based solution to tackle that problem. You will cover a wide range of topics – from classification and regression, to dimensionality reduction and clustering, deep learning and working with Big Data. Finally, you will see the different ways to deploy the model and evaluate it in production settings. By the end of this course, you will be up and running with various facets of data science using Java, in no time at all. This course contains premium content from two of our recently published popular titles: - Java for Data Science - Mastering Java for Data Science
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
15
Module 2
26
Bibliography

Chapter 21. Working with Text - Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval

In the previous two chapters, we covered the basics of machine learning: we spoke about supervised and unsupervised problems.

In this chapter, we will take a look at how to use these methods for processing textual information, and we will illustrate most of our ideas with our running example: building a search engine. Here, we will finally use the text information from the HTML and include it into the machine learning models.

First, we will start with the basics of natural language processing, and implement some of the basic ideas ourselves, and then look into efficient implementations available in NLP libraries.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Basics of information retrieval
  • Indexing and searching with Apache Lucene 
  • Basics of natural language processing
  • Unsupervised models for texts - dimensionality reduction, clustering, and word embeddings
  • Supervised models for texts - text classification and learning...