1. Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Overview
In this chapter, you will learn the difference between Natural Language Processing (NLP) and basic text analytics. You will implement various preprocessing tasks such as tokenization, lemmatization, stemming, stop word removal, and more. By the end of this chapter, you will have a deep understanding of the various phases of an NLP project, from data collection to model deployment.
Introduction
Before we can get into NLP in any depth, we first need to understand what natural language is. To put it in simple terms, it is a means for us to express our thoughts and ideas. To define it more specifically, language is a mutually agreed upon set of protocols involving words/sounds that we ...
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