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Natural Language Processing Fundamentals

You're reading from   Natural Language Processing Fundamentals Build intelligent applications that can interpret the human language to deliver impactful results

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789954043
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dwight Gunning Dwight Gunning
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Sohom Ghosh Sohom Ghosh
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Preface 1. Introduction to Natural Language Processing FREE CHAPTER 2. Basic Feature Extraction Methods 3. Developing a Text classifier 4. Collecting Text Data from the Web 5. Topic Modeling 6. Text Summarization and Text Generation 7. Vector Representation 8. Sentiment Analysis Appendix

TextBlob

TextBlob is a Python library used for NLP. It has a simple API and is probably the easiest way to begin with sentiment analysis and other text analytic areas in Python. TextBlob is built on top of the NLTK library but is a bit easier to use. In the following sections, we will perform an exercise and an activity to get a better understanding of how TextBlob is used in sentiment analysis.

Exercise 63: Basic Sentiment Analysis Using the TextBlob Library

In this exercise, we will perform sentiment analysis on given text. For this, we will be using the TextBlob class of the textblob library. Follow these steps to implement this exercise:

  1. Open a Jupyter notebook.
  2. Insert a new cell and add the following code to implement to import the TextBlob class from the textblob library:
    from textblob import TextBlob
  3. Create a variable named sentence and assign it a string. Insert a new cell and add the following code to implement this:
    sentence = "but you are Late Flight...
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