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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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6FINDING PATTERNS AND WALKING DEPENDENCY TREES

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If you want your application to categorize a text, extract specific phrases from it, or determine how semantically similar it is to another text, it must be able to “understand” an utterance submitted by a user and generate a meaningful response to it.

You’ve already learned some techniques for performing these tasks. This chapter discusses two more approaches: using word sequence patterns to classify and generate text, and walking the syntactic dependency tree of an utterance to extract necessary pieces of information from it. I’ll introduce you to spaCy’s Matcher tool to find patterns. I’ll also ...

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ISBN: 9781098122652