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Natural Language Processing Fundamentals

By : Sohom Ghosh, Dwight Gunning
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Natural Language Processing Fundamentals

By: Sohom Ghosh, Dwight Gunning

Overview of this book

If NLP hasn't been your forte, Natural Language Processing Fundamentals will make sure you set off to a steady start. This comprehensive guide will show you how to effectively use Python libraries and NLP concepts to solve various problems. You'll be introduced to natural language processing and its applications through examples and exercises. This will be followed by an introduction to the initial stages of solving a problem, which includes problem definition, getting text data, and preparing it for modeling. With exposure to concepts like advanced natural language processing algorithms and visualization techniques, you'll learn how to create applications that can extract information from unstructured data and present it as impactful visuals. Although you will continue to learn NLP-based techniques, the focus will gradually shift to developing useful applications. In these sections, you'll understand how to apply NLP techniques to answer questions as can be used in chatbots. By the end of this book, you'll be able to accomplish a varied range of assignments ranging from identifying the most suitable type of NLP task for solving a problem to using a tool like spacy or gensim for performing sentiment analysis. The book will easily equip you with the knowledge you need to build applications that interpret human language.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Introduction

In the previous chapter, you learned about various extraction methods, such as tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, and stop-word removal, which are used to extract features from unstructured text. We also discussed Bag-of-Words and Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF).

In this chapter, you will learn how to use these extracted features to develop machine learning models. These models are capable of solving real-world problems such as detecting whether sentiments carried by texts are positive or negative, predicting whether emails are spam or not, and so on. We will also cover concepts such as supervised and unsupervised learning, classifications and regressions, the sampling and splitting of data, along with evaluating the performance of a model in depth. This chapter also discusses how to load and save these models for future use.