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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

Summary

This chapter provided a landscape view of the NLP topics covered in this book. We learned that the development of NLP was due to the success of NLU and NLG. Then, we surveyed the NLP techniques that are covered by Gensim. The main techniques include BoW, TF-IDF, LSA/LSI, Word2Vec, Doc2Vec, LDA, and Ensemble LDA. We were also introduced to BERTopic modeling. We then learned about the other two popular NLP Python libraries, spaCy and NLTK.

As we all know, a computer operates on zeros and ones but cannot comprehend the great works of Shakespeare. So, how do ChatGPT and other language models understand language? The very first step is to convert words to numerical values. The next chapter will teach you about text representation.