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Natural Language Processing with Python and spaCy
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Natural Language Processing with Python and spaCy

by Yuli Vasiliev
April 2020
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
216 pages
5h 23m
English
No Starch Press
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LINGUISTIC PRIMER

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Most of the chapters in the book focus on analyzing sentence structures to identify patterns in word sequences using spaCy. To understand sentence analysis and patterns, you need some basic knowledge of linguistics. This appendix contains a linguistic primer to use as a reference.

Dependency Grammars vs. Phrase Structure Grammars

By default, spaCy uses a dependency grammar rather than a phrase structure grammar more commonly used in linguistics. This section explains the difference between these two grammar types. If you have a formal linguistic background, you may find this information helpful.

Also known as a constituent-based ...

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ISBN: 9781098122652