Chapter 9. Natural Language Processing
In this chapter, you will learn the following recipes:
- Reading raw text from the Web
- Tokenizing and normalizing text
- Identifying parts of speech, handling n-grams, and recognizing named entities
- Identifying the topic of an article
- Identifying the sentence structure
- Classifying movies based on their reviews
Introduction
Modeling based on structured data gathered via a controlled experiment (as we were doing in previous chapters) is relatively straightforward. However, in the real world, we rarely deal with structured data. This is especially true when it comes to understanding human-generated feedback or analyzing an article in a newspaper.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a discipline of computer science, statistics, ...
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