Chapter 5 Data Transformation
Introduction
You saw in Chapter 4 that the first task of text mining analysis is to break down the text into a bag of words or tokens. Then, you apply various linguistic rules to identify the parts of speech, synonyms, noun groups, attributes, etc. Even before doing this exercise, a good understanding of what is being talked about in a corpus can be obtained by looking at the counts of the words extracted from the corpus. A current popular technique to visually represent prominent terms in text is using a word cloud or text cloud. This is an easy and visually appealing ...
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