7 Natural Language Processing for Analyzing Unstructured Data
Before discussing Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks and techniques, it is important to understand its need for analytical purposes. The data available to us for any research or analysis endeavor can be either in a structured or unstructured format. Earlier chapters have focused on analyzing structured (i.e., tabular) data and in that process, we have learned how to uncover hidden information in the data by utilizing different analytical techniques.
In a similar manner, unstructured data (e.g., text, image, and audio) also contain hidden information that can be mined. For example, the social media site Twitter contains a corpus of tweets, each about ...
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