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Python Natural Language Processing
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Python Natural Language Processing

by Jalaj Thanaki
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
486 pages
13h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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One-hot encoding

In an NLP application, you always get categorical data. The categorical data is mostly in the form of words. There are words that form the vocabulary. The words from this vocabulary cannot turn into vectors easily.

Consider that you have a vocabulary with the size N. The way to approximate the state of the language is by representing the words in the form of one-hot encoding. This technique is used to map the words to the vectors of length n, where the nth digit is an indicator of the presence of the particular word. If you are converting words to the one-hot encoding format, then you will see vectors such as 0000...001, 0000...100, 0000...010, and so on. Every word in the vocabulary is represented by one of the combinations ...

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ISBN: 9781787121423