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Algorithms for Natural Language Processing
Language is the most important instrument of thought.
—Marvin Minsky
This chapter introduces algorithms for natural language processing (NLP). It first introduces the fundamentals of NLP. Then it presents preparing data for NLP tasks. After that, it explains the concepts of vectorizing textual data. Next, we discuss word embeddings. Finally, we present a detailed use case.
This chapter is made up of the following sections:
- Introducing NLP
- Bag-of-words-based (BoW-based) NLP
- Introduction to word embedding
- Case study: Restaurant review sentiment analysis
By the end of this chapter, you will understand the basic techniques that are used for NLP. You should also understand how NLP can be used to solve ...
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