Natural Language Processing Fundamentals

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.

Type
ebook
Category
publication date
2019-03-30
what you will learn

Obtain, verify, and clean data before transforming it into a correct format for use
Perform data analysis and machine learning tasks using Python
Understand the basics of computational linguistics
Build models for general natural language processing tasks
Evaluate the performance of a model with the right metrics
Visualize, quantify, and perform exploratory analysis from any text data

no of pages
374
duration
748
key features
Assimilate key NLP concepts and terminologies * Explore popular NLP tools and techniques * Gain practical experience using NLP in application code *
approach
Natural Language Processing Fundamentals takes a hands-on approach to the practical aspects of using Python to build NLP applications. It contains multiple activities that use real-life business scenarios for you to practice and apply your new skills in a highly relevant context.
audience
Natural Language Processing Fundamentals is designed for novice and mid-level data scientists and machine learning developers who want to gather and analyze text data to build an NLP-powered product. It'll help you to have prior experience of coding in Python using data types, writing functions, and importing libraries. Some experience with linguistics and probability is useful but not necessary.
meta description
Use Python and NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) to build out your own text classifiers and solve common NLP problems.
short description
Natural Language Processing Fundamentals starts with basics and goes on to explain various NLP tools and techniques that equip you with all that you need to solve common business problems for processing text.
subtitle
Build intelligent applications that can interpret the human language to deliver impactful results
keywords
NLP, Natural language processing, Python, Tokenization, Supervised Unsupervised Linear regression, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Binary classifier, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, LDA, API, Markov chain
Product ISBN
9781789954043