May 2018
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
10h 19m
English
As mentioned earlier in this chapter, the NLP system does not understand string values. They need numerical input to build models, sometimes they are also called numerical features. Feature extraction in NLP is converting a set of text information into a set of numerical features. Any machine learning algorithm that you are going to train would need features in numerical vector forms as it does not understand the string. There are many ways text can be represented as numerical vectors. Some such ways are One hot encoding, TF-IDF, Word2Vec, and CountVectorizer.
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