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Natural Language Processing with Python Quick Start Guide

By : Kasliwal

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Natural Language Processing with Python Quick Start Guide

By: Kasliwal

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Overview of this book

NLP in Python is among the most sought after skills among data scientists. With code and relevant case studies, this book will show how you can use industry-grade tools to implement NLP programs capable of learning from relevant data. We will explore many modern methods ranging from spaCy to word vectors that have reinvented NLP. The book takes you from the basics of NLP to building text processing applications. We start with an introduction to the basic vocabulary along with a work?ow for building NLP applications. We use industry-grade NLP tools for cleaning and pre-processing text, automatic question and answer generation using linguistics, text embedding, text classifier, and building a chatbot. With each project, you will learn a new concept of NLP. You will learn about entity recognition, part of speech tagging and dependency parsing for Q and A. We use text embedding for both clustering documents and making chatbots, and then build classifiers using scikit-learn. We conclude by deploying these models as REST APIs with Flask. By the end, you will be confident building NLP applications, and know exactly what to look for when approaching new challenges.

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Getting Started with Text Classification

What is NLP?

NLP workflow template

Example – text classification workflow

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Tidying your Text

Bread and butter – most common tasks

Tokenization

Stemming and lemmatization

spaCy compared with NLTK and CoreNLP

Correcting spelling

Cleaning a corpus with FlashText

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Leveraging Linguistics

Linguistics and NLP

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Text Representations - Words to Numbers

Vectorizing a specific dataset

Word representations

Document embedding

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Modern Methods for Classification

Machine learning for text

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Deep Learning for NLP

What is deep learning?

Understanding deep learning

Putting it all together – the training loop

Kaggle – text categorization challenge

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Building your Own Chatbot

Why chatbots as a learning example?

Quick code means word vectors and heuristics

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Web Deployments

Web deployments

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Leveraging Linguistics

In this chapter, we are going to pick up a simple use case and see how we can solve it. Then, we repeat this task again, but on a slightly different text corpus.

This helps us learn about build intuition when using linguistics in NLP. I will be using spaCy here, but you are free to use NLTK or an equivalent. There are programmatic differences in their APIs and styles, but the underlying theme remains the same.

In the previous chapter, we had our first taste of handling free text. Specifically, we learned how to tokenize text into words and sentences, pattern match with regex, and make fast substitutions.

By doing all of this, we operated with text on a string as the main representation. In this chapter, we will use language and grammar as the main representations.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics: