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Natural Language Processing with Java Cookbook
Natural Language Processing with Java Cookbook

Natural Language Processing with Java Cookbook: Over 70 recipes to create linguistic and language translation applications using Java libraries

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Natural Language Processing with Java Cookbook

Isolating Sentences within a Document

The process of extracting sentences from text is known as Sentence Boundary Disambiguation (SBD). While this process may initially appear to be simple, there are many complicating factors that ultimately demand more sophisticated approaches, such as using neural networks.

The end of a sentence is typically marked with a period. However, there are other terminators used, such as question marks and exclamation marks. If these were the only considerations, then the process would be easy. However, even limiting the problem to periods, we find that periods are used in many places including abbreviations, numbers, and ellipses. A sentence might use periods such as Mr. Smith, 2.005, or 3.12.18. Ellipses may be simply three periods back, to back or a Unicode character might be used.

Specialized text such as scientific text may contain unusual uses...

Technical requirements

Finding sentences using the Java core API

There are several approaches to performing SBD using the Java core JDK. While they will not always yield good results as do other more advanced SBD techniques, they may prove quite useful in some situations while not incurring the expense of specialized NLP models.

In this recipe, we will examine two approaches:

  • The first approach will use the split method of the String class
  • The second approach uses a simple regular expression

Getting ready

Create a new Java project. Since we will not be using any specialized libraries, the project does not need to be a Maven project.

How to do it.....

Performing SBD using the BreakIterator class

There are several Java core techniques that can be used to perform sentence boundary detection. In this recipe, we will use the BreakIterator class. This class supports the identification of more than just sentences. It can also be used to isolate lines and words.

Getting ready

Create a new Java project. This does not need to be a Maven project since we will not be using a specialized NLP library.

How to do it...

The necessary steps include the following:

  1. Add the following import statement to the project:
import java.text...

Using OpenNLP to perform SBD

OpenNLP is a popular NLP library that supports the SBD process among other NLP tasks. As we will see, it is easy to use. We will use the SentenceDetectorME class to demonstrate this process. This is a maximum entropy model that is based on a statistical classification approach.

Getting ready

To prepare, we need to do the following:

  1. Create a new Maven project.
  2. Add the following POM dependency to your project:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.opennlp</groupId>
<artifactId>opennlp-tools</artifactId>
<version>1.9.0</version>
</dependency>
  1. Download the en-sent.bin file from http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/models-1.5/. Save the file in your project...

Using the Stanford NLP API to perform SBD

The Stanford NLP API possesses several techniques for detecting SBD. We will use the WordToSentenceProcessor class to illustrate how this can be performed. This provides an alternate approach to using OpenNLP.

Getting ready

To prepare, we need to do the following:

  1. Create a new Maven project
  2. Add the following dependency to the project's POM file:
<dependency>
<groupId>edu.stanford.nlp</groupId>
<artifactId>stanford-corenlp</artifactId>
<version>3.8.0</version>
</dependency>

How to do it...

...

Using the LingPipe and chunking to perform SBD

Chunking is a technique that breaks up text into units referred to as chunks. The LingPipe libraries contain classes that support SBD. In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to perform SBD using chunking.

Getting ready

To prepare, we need to do the following:

  1. Create a new Maven project
  2. Add the following dependency to the project's POM file:
<dependency>
<groupId>de.julielab</groupId>
<artifactId>aliasi-lingpipe</artifactId>
<version>4.1.0</version>
</dependency>

How to do it...

...

Performing SBD on specialized text

Unique types of text, such as medical or unusual languages, pose challenges when performing SBD. The frequent heavy use of specialized words and numeric values will not always yield good result with a model trained on a normal text. As a result, there are numerous models that have been trained on specialized datasets. In this recipe, we will demonstrate the use of a LingPipe model that has been trained to handle medical text.

The model will be demonstrated against an actual paragraph from a medical research article found in the Journal of Biomedical Science in 2018, Association between heavy metal levels and acute ischemic stroke, by Ching-Huang Lin, Yi-Ting Hsu, Cheng-Chung Yen, Hsin-Hung Chen, Ching-Jiunn Tseng, Yuk-Keung Lo, and Julie Y. H. Chan at https://jbiomedsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12929-018-0446-0.

Specifically, we will...

Training a neural network to perform SBD with specialized text

When there are no specialized models for SBD, it becomes necessary to train a new model. In this recipe, we will illustrate how this can be performed using the OpenNLP API. We will create a set of training data and use it to train a neural network model. The model will then be tested using the OpenNLP technique illustrated in the Using OpenNLP to perform SBD recipe.

Getting ready

To prepare, we need to do the following:

  1. Create new Maven project
  2. Add the following dependency to the POM file:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.opennlp</groupId>
<artifactId>opennlp-tools</artifactId>
<version>1.9.0</version>
</dependency...
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Key benefits

  • Perform simple-to-complex NLP text processing tasks using modern Java libraries
  • Extract relationships between different text complexities using a problem-solution approach
  • Utilize cloud-based APIs to perform machine translation operations

Description

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become one of the prime technologies for processing very large amounts of unstructured data from disparate information sources. This book includes a wide set of recipes and quick methods that solve challenges in text syntax, semantics, and speech tasks. At the beginning of the book, you'll learn important NLP techniques, such as identifying parts of speech, tagging words, and analyzing word semantics. You will learn how to perform lexical analysis and use machine learning techniques to speed up NLP operations. With independent recipes, you will explore techniques for customizing your existing NLP engines/models using Java libraries such as OpenNLP and the Stanford NLP library. You will also learn how to use NLP processing features from cloud-based sources, including Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS). You will master core tasks, such as stemming, lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging, and named entity recognition. You will also learn about sentiment analysis, semantic text similarity, language identification, machine translation, and text summarization. By the end of this book, you will be ready to become a professional NLP expert using a problem-solution approach to analyze any sort of text, sentence, or semantic word.

Who is this book for?

This book is for data scientists, NLP engineers, and machine learning developers who want to perform their work on linguistic applications faster with the use of popular libraries on JVM machines. This book will help you build real-world NLP applications using a recipe-based approach. Prior knowledge of Natural Language Processing basics and Java programming is expected.

What you will learn

  • Explore how to use tokenizers in NLP processing
  • Implement NLP techniques in machine learning and deep learning applications
  • Identify sentences within text and learn how to train specialized NER models
  • Learn how to classify documents and perform sentiment analysis
  • Find semantic similarities between text elements and extract text from a variety of sources
  • Preprocess text from a variety of data sources
  • Learn how to identify and translate languages

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Table of Contents

13 Chapters
Preparing Text for Analysis and Tokenization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Isolating Sentences within a Document Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Performing Name Entity Recognition Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Detecting POS Using Neural Networks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Performing Text Classification Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Finding Relationships within Text Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Language Identification and Translation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Identifying Semantic Similarities within Text Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Common Text Processing and Generation Tasks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Extracting Data for Use in NLP Analysis Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating a Chatbot Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Installation and Configuration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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