Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK

Chapter 6. Text Classification

We were talking about some of the most common NLP tools and preprocessing steps in the last chapter. This is the chapter where we will get to use most of the stuff we learnt in the previous chapters, and build one of the most sophisticated NLP applications. We will give you a generic approach about text classification and how you can build a text classifier from scratch with very few lines of code. We will give you a cheat sheet of all the classification algorithms in the context of text classification.

While we will talk about some of the most common text classification algorithms, this is just a brief introduction and to get to a detailed understanding and mathematical background, there are many online resources ...