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Natural Language Processing Fundamentals

Name: Natural Language Processing Fundamentals
ISBN: 9781789954043

by Sohom Ghosh, Dwight Gunning

March 2019

Beginner

374 pages

6h 36m

English

Packt Publishing

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Preface
About the BookAbout the AuthorsLearning ObjectivesAudienceApproachHardware RequirementsSoftware RequirementsConventionsInstallation and SetupWorking with the Jupyter Notebook Importing Python Libraries Installing the Code BundleAdditional Resources
1. Introduction to Natural Language Processing
IntroductionHistory of NLPText Analytics and NLPExercise 1: Basic Text AnalyticsVarious Steps in NLPTokenizationExercise 2: Tokenization of a Simple SentencePoS TaggingExercise 3: PoS TaggingStop Word RemovalExercise 4: Stop Word RemovalText NormalizationExercise 5: Text NormalizationSpelling CorrectionExercise 6: Spelling Correction of a Word and a SentenceStemmingExercise 7: StemmingLemmatizationExercise 8: Extracting the base word using LemmatizationNERExercise 9: Treating Named EntitiesWord Sense DisambiguationExercise 10: Word Sense DisambiguationSentence Boundary DetectionExercise 11: Sentence Boundary DetectionActivity 1: Preprocessing of Raw TextKick Starting an NLP ProjectData CollectionData PreprocessingFeature ExtractionModel DevelopmentModel AssessmentModel DeploymentSummary
2. Basic Feature Extraction Methods
IntroductionTypes of DataCategorizing Data Based on StructureCategorization of Data Based on ContentCleaning Text DataTokenizationExercise 12: Text Cleaning and TokenizationExercise 13: Extracting n-gramsExercise 14: Tokenizing Texts with Different Packages – Keras and TextBlobTypes of Tokenizers Exercise 15: Tokenizing Text Using Various TokenizersIssues with TokenizationStemmingRegexpStemmerExercise 16: Converting words in gerund form into base words using RegexpStemmerThe Porter StemmerExercise 17: The Porter StemmerLemmatizationExercise 18: LemmatizationExercise 19: Singularizing and Pluralizing WordsLanguage TranslationExercise 20: Language TranslationStop-Word RemovalExercise 21: Stop-Word RemovalFeature Extraction from TextsExtracting General Features from Raw TextExercise 22: Extracting General Features from Raw TextActivity 2: Extracting General Features from TextBag of WordsExercise 23: Creating a BoWZipf's Law Exercise 24: Zipf's LawTF-IDFExercise 25: TF-IDF RepresentationActivity 3: Extracting Specific Features from TextsFeature EngineeringExercise 26: Feature Engineering (Text Similarity)Word CloudsExercise 27: Word CloudsOther VisualizationsExercise 28: Other Visualizations (Dependency Parse Trees and Named Entities)Activity 4: Text VisualizationSummary
3. Developing a Text classifier
IntroductionMachine LearningUnsupervised LearningHierarchical ClusteringExercise 29: Hierarchical ClusteringK-Means ClusteringExercise 30: K-Means ClusteringSupervised LearningClassificationLogistic RegressionNaive Bayes ClassifiersK-Nearest NeighborsExercise 31: Text Classification (Logistic regression, Naive Bayes, and KNN)RegressionLinear RegressionExercise 32: Regression Analysis Using Textual DataTree MethodsRandom ForestGBM and XGBoostExercise 33: Tree-Based Methods (Decision Tree, Random Forest, GBM, and XGBoost)SamplingExercise 34: Sampling (Simple Random, Stratified, Multi-Stage)Developing a Text ClassifierFeature ExtractionFeature EngineeringRemoving Correlated FeaturesExercise 35: Removing Highly Correlated Features (Tokens)Dimensionality ReductionExercise 36: Dimensionality Reduction (PCA)Deciding on a Model TypeEvaluating the Performance of a ModelExercise 37: Calculate the RMSE and MAPEActivity 5: Developing End-to-End Text ClassifiersBuilding Pipelines for NLP ProjectsExercise 38: Building Pipelines for NLP ProjectsSaving and Loading ModelsExercise 39: Saving and Loading ModelsSummary
4. Collecting Text Data from the Web
IntroductionCollecting Data by Scraping Web PagesExercise 40: Extraction of Tag-Based Information from HTML FilesRequesting Content from Web PagesExercise 41: Collecting Online Text Data Exercise 42: Analyzing the Content of Jupyter Notebooks (in HTML Format)Activity 6: Extracting Information from an Online HTML PageActivity 7: Extracting and Analyzing Data Using Regular ExpressionsDealing with Semi-Structured DataJSONExercise 43: Dealing with JSON FilesActivity 8: Dealing with Online JSON FilesXMLExercise 44: Dealing with a Local XML FileUsing APIs to Retrieve Real-Time DataExercise 45: Collecting Data Using APIsAPI CreationActivity 9: Extracting Data from TwitterExtracting Data from Local FilesExercise 46: Extracting Data from Local FilesExercise 47: Performing Various Operations on Local FilesSummary
5. Topic Modeling
IntroductionTopic DiscoveryDiscovering ThemesExploratory Data AnalysisDocument ClusteringDimensionality ReductionHistorical AnalysisBag of Words Topic Modeling AlgorithmsLatent Semantic AnalysisLSA – How It WorksExercise 48: Analyzing Reuters News Articles with Latent Semantic AnalysisLatent Dirichlet AllocationLDA – How It WorksExercise 49: Topics in Airline TweetsTopic FingerprintingExercise 50: Visualizing Documents Using Topic VectorsActivity 10: Topic Modelling Jeopardy QuestionsSummary
6. Text Summarization and Text Generation
IntroductionWhat is Automated Text Summarization?Benefits of Automated Text SummarizationHigh-Level View of Text SummarizationPurposeInputOutputExtractive Text SummarizationAbstractive Text SummarizationSequence to Sequence Encoder DecoderTextRankExercise 51: TextRank from ScratchSummarizing Text Using GensimActivity 11: Summarizing a Downloaded Page Using the Gensim Text SummarizerSummarizing Text Using Word FrequencyExercise 52: Word Frequency Text SummarizationGenerating Text with Markov ChainsMarkov ChainsExercise 53: Generating Text Using Markov ChainsSummary
7. Vector Representation
IntroductionVector DefinitionWhy Vector Representations?EncodingCharacter-Level EncodingExercise 54: Character Encoding Using ASCII ValuesExercise 55: Character Encoding with the Help of NumPy ArraysPositional Character-Level EncodingExercise 56: Character-Level Encoding Using PositionsOne-Hot EncodingKey Steps in One-Hot EncodingExercise 57: Character One-Hot Encoding – ManualExercise 58: Character-Level One-Hot Encoding with KerasWord-Level One-Hot EncodingExercise 59: Word-Level One-Hot EncodingWord EmbeddingsWord2VecExercise 60: Training Word VectorsUsing Pre-Trained Word VectorsExercise 61: Loading Pre-Trained Word VectorsDocument VectorsUses of Document VectorsExercise 62: From Movie Dialogue to Document VectorsActivity 12: Finding Similar Movie Lines Using Document VectorsSummary
8. Sentiment Analysis
IntroductionWhy is Sentiment Analysis Required?Growth of Sentiment AnalysisMonetization of EmotionTypes of SentimentsKey Ideas and TermsApplications of Sentiment AnalysisTools Used for Sentiment AnalysisNLP Services from Major Cloud ProvidersOnline MarketplacesPython NLP LibrariesDeep Learning LibrariesTextBlobExercise 63: Basic Sentiment Analysis Using the TextBlob LibraryActivity 13: Tweet Sentiment Analysis Using the TextBlob libraryUnderstanding Data for Sentiment AnalysisExercise 64: Loading Data for Sentiment AnalysisTraining Sentiment ModelsExercise 65: Training a Sentiment Model Using TFIDF and Logistic RegressionSummary
Appendix
1. Introduction to Natural Language ProcessingActivity 1: Preprocessing of Raw Text2. Basic Feature Extraction MethodsActivity 2: Extracting General Features from TextActivity 3: Extracting Specific Features from TextsActivity 4: Text Visualization3. Developing a Text classifierActivity 5: Developing End-to-End Text Classifiers4. Collecting Text Data from the WebActivity 6: Extracting Information from an Online HTML PageActivity 7: Extracting and Analyzing Data Using Regular ExpressionsActivity 8: Dealing with Online JSON FilesActivity 9: Extracting Data from Twitter5. Topic ModelingActivity 10: Topic Modelling Jeopardy Questions6. Text Summarization and Text GenerationActivity 11: Summarizing a Downloaded Page Using the Gensim Text Summarizer7. Vector RepresentationActivity 12: Finding Similar Movie Lines Using Document VectorsSolution8. Sentiment AnalysisActivity 13: Tweet Sentiment Analysis Using the TextBlob library

Overview

Natural Language Processing Fundamentals is your comprehensive guide to mastering the core techniques and tools of NLP. Through practical examples and hands-on projects, you will learn how to effectively use Python for processing text data, building models, and crafting applications that interpret and generate human language.

What this Book will help me do

Learn how to obtain and process text data for analysis and modeling.
Understand the principles of computational linguistics and core NLP tasks.
Implement sentiment analysis and topic modeling using Python libraries.
Build and evaluate machine learning models for text data.
Develop applications such as chatbots and text summarizers with real-world use cases.

Author(s)

Sohom Ghosh and Dwight Gunning are recognized experts in the field of data science and machine learning. They bring years of professional experience in applying NLP techniques to solve real-world problems. Their writing focuses on providing clear explanations and practical insights, ensuring readers can easily follow along and apply what they learn effectively.

Who is it for?

This book is ideal for data scientists, machine learning engineers, and developers who want to enhance their ability to process and analyze text data. It is suitable for readers who have basic experience in Python programming and a general familiarity with data science concepts. If you're eager to build useful applications that utilize natural language processing, this book is for you.

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