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Hands-On Python Natural Language Processing

By : Aman Kedia, Mayank Rasu
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Hands-On Python Natural Language Processing

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By: Aman Kedia, Mayank Rasu

Overview of this book

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the subfield in computational linguistics that enables computers to understand, process, and analyze text. This book caters to the unmet demand for hands-on training of NLP concepts and provides exposure to real-world applications along with a solid theoretical grounding. This book starts by introducing you to the field of NLP and its applications, along with the modern Python libraries that you'll use to build your NLP-powered apps. With the help of practical examples, you’ll learn how to build reasonably sophisticated NLP applications, and cover various methodologies and challenges in deploying NLP applications in the real world. You'll cover key NLP tasks such as text classification, semantic embedding, sentiment analysis, machine translation, and developing a chatbot using machine learning and deep learning techniques. The book will also help you discover how machine learning techniques play a vital role in making your linguistic apps smart. Every chapter is accompanied by examples of real-world applications to help you build impressive NLP applications of your own. By the end of this NLP book, you’ll be able to work with language data, use machine learning to identify patterns in text, and get acquainted with the advancements in NLP.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction
4
Section 2: Natural Language Representation and Mathematics
9
Section 3: NLP and Learning

Building a question classifier using neural networks

We have used a question classification dataset that is open sourced by the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. We will try and classify questions based on their text into one of the following six classes:

  • ABBREVIATION
  • ENTITY
  • DESCRIPTION
  • HUMAN
  • LOCATION
  • NUMERIC

More about the dataset can be found at https://cogcomp.seas.upenn.edu/Data/QA/QC/.

Go through the following steps to classify the questions based on their text:

  1. Import the basic libraries:
import nltk
nltk.download('stopwords')
nltk.download('wordnet')
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.stem.porter import PorterStemmer
from nltk.stem.snowball import SnowballStemmer
from nltk.stem.wordnet import WordNetLemmatizer
import pandas as pd
import re
import numpy as np
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
  1. Now, we will read the dataset using the following code snippet:
train_data = open(...