Intro to Python for Computer Science and Data Science: Learning to Program with AI, Big Data and The Cloud

12.2 TextBlob¹

1. https://textblob.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

TextBlob is an object-oriented NLP text-processing library that is built on the NLTK and pattern NLP libraries and simplifies many of their capabilities. Some of the NLP tasks TextBlob can perform include:

• Tokenization—splitting text into pieces called tokens, which are meaningful units, such as words and numbers.

• Parts-of-speech (POS) tagging—identifying each word’s part of speech, such as noun, verb, adjective, etc.

• Noun phrase extraction—locating groups of words that represent nouns, such as “red brick factory.”²

  2. The phrase “red brick factory” illustrates why natural language is such a difficult subject. Is a “red brick factory” a factory that makes red bricks? Is it a red factory ...