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Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics
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Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics

by Brian Sacash, Bhargav Srinivasa-Desikan, Reddy Anil Kumar
June 2018
Beginner to intermediate
306 pages
7h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Garbage in, garbage out

Garbage in, garbage out (or GIGO) is an adage of computer science which is even more important when dealing with machine learning and possibly even more so when dealing with textual data. Garbage in, garbage out means that if we have poorly formatted data, it is likely we will have poor results.

Fig 1.6 XKCD hits the hammer on the nail once again (https://xkcd.com/1838/)

While more data usually leads to a better prediction, it isn't always the same case with text analysis, where more data can result in nonsense results or results which we don't always want. An intuitive example: the part of speech, articles, such as ...

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