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Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK
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Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK

by Nitin Hardeniya, Jacob Perkins, Deepti Chopra, Nisheeth Joshi, Iti Mathur
November 2016
Beginner to intermediate
687 pages
15h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Your Turn

Here are the answers to the questions posed in the above sections:

  • Can we remove stop words before POS tagging?

    No; If we remove the stop words, we will lose the context, and some of the POS taggers (Pre-Trained model) use word context as features to give the POS of the given word.

  • How can we get all the verbs in the sentence?

    We can get all the verbs in the sentence by using pos_tag

    >>>tagged = nltk.pos_tag(word_tokenize(s))
    >>>allverbs = [word for word,pos in tagged if pos in ['VB','VBD','VBG'] ]
    
  • Can you modify the code of the hybrid tagger in the N-gram tagger section to work with Regex tagger? Does that improve performance?

    Yes. We can modify the code of the hybrid tagger in the N-gram tagger section to work with the Regex tagger:

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