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The Handbook of NLP with Gensim

By : Chris Kuo
Book Image

The Handbook of NLP with Gensim

By: Chris Kuo

Overview of this book

Navigating the terrain of NLP research and applying it practically can be a formidable task made easy with The Handbook of NLP with Gensim. This book demystifies NLP and equips you with hands-on strategies spanning healthcare, e-commerce, finance, and more to enable you to leverage Gensim in real-world scenarios. You’ll begin by exploring motives and techniques for extracting text information like bag-of-words, TF-IDF, and word embeddings. This book will then guide you on topic modeling using methods such as Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) for dimensionality reduction and discovering latent semantic relationships in text data, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for probabilistic topic modeling, and Ensemble LDA to enhance topic modeling stability and accuracy. Next, you’ll learn text summarization techniques with Word2Vec and Doc2Vec to build the modeling pipeline and optimize models using hyperparameters. As you get acquainted with practical applications in various industries, this book will inspire you to design innovative projects. Alongside topic modeling, you’ll also explore named entity handling and NER tools, modeling procedures, and tools for effective topic modeling applications. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered the techniques essential to create applications with Gensim and integrate NLP into your business processes.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: NLP Basics
5
Part 2: Latent Semantic Analysis/Latent Semantic Indexing
9
Part 3: Word2Vec and Doc2Vec
12
Part 4: Topic Modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
18
Part 5: Comparison and Applications

Training your own Word2Vec model in CBOW and Skip-Gram

I will show you how to build the model step by step. The steps are as follows:

  1. Load the data.
  2. Text preprocessing.
  3. Modeling.
  4. Save and load the model.
  5. Use the model.

The text preprocessing only consists of tokenization. In Figure 7.5 and 7.8, we have explained how text data is prepared to be the inputs and outputs. Gensim has taken care of this data preparation. All we need to do is text tokenization.

Load the data

Let’s continue to use the same AG’s news articles in order to save your learning time. This dataset has 120,000 news articles in the training dataset. Let’s load it:

import pandas as pdimport numpy as np
pd.set_option('display.max_colwidth', -1)
path = "/content/gdrive/My Drive/data/gensim"
train = pd.read_csv(path + "/ag_news_train.csv")

Text preprocessing

Let’s apply the same preprocessing procedure. The tokenized...