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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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Process of deriving tokens

Sentences are formed by stream of words and from a sentence we need to derive individual meaningful chunks which are called the tokens and process of deriving token is called tokenization:

  • The process of deriving tokens from a stream of text has two stages. If you have a lot of paragraphs, then first you need to do sentence tokenization, then word tokenization, and generate the meaning of the tokens.
  • Tokenization and lemmatization are processes that are helpful for lexical analysis. Using the nltk library, we can perform tokenization and lemmatization.
  • Tokenization can be defined as identifying the boundary of sentences or words.
  • Lemmatization can be defined as a process that identifies the correct intended POS ...
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ISBN: 9781787121423