June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
494 pages
17h 52m
English
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Chapter 3
Big Data Analytics for Social Media
S. Kannan; S. Karuppusamy; A. Nedunchezhian; P. Venkateshan; P. Wang; N. Bojja; A. Kejariwal
Abstract
A large volume of text data is being generated at a high velocity on a routine basis. Natural language processing (NLP) methods are used to parse text data and extract the most impactful entities. Understanding text is governed by grammatical rules of the language. Traditional methods of text analysis have been centered on syntactic methods, but there has been a systematic shift towards the use of statistical methods for text and language processing in recent years. These NLP techniques are central to building everyday applications such as search, recommendation systems, spell checkers, machine ...