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The Handbook of NLP with Gensim

You're reading from   The Handbook of NLP with Gensim Leverage topic modeling to uncover hidden patterns, themes, and valuable insights within textual data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803244945
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: NLP Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to NLP FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Text Representation 4. Chapter 3: Text Wrangling and Preprocessing 5. Part 2: Latent Semantic Analysis/Latent Semantic Indexing
6. Chapter 4: Latent Semantic Analysis with scikit-learn 7. Chapter 5: Cosine Similarity 8. Chapter 6: Latent Semantic Indexing with Gensim 9. Part 3: Word2Vec and Doc2Vec
10. Chapter 7: Using Word2Vec 11. Chapter 8: Doc2Vec with Gensim 12. Part 4: Topic Modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
13. Chapter 9: Understanding Discrete Distributions 14. Chapter 10: Latent Dirichlet Allocation 15. Chapter 11: LDA Modeling 16. Chapter 12: LDA Visualization 17. Chapter 13: The Ensemble LDA for Model Stability 18. Part 5: Comparison and Applications
19. Chapter 14: LDA and BERTopic 20. Chapter 15: Real-World Use Cases 21. Assessments 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Designing an infographic

Topic modeling algorithms identify distinct topics through their mathematical operations. Now, the question is how to make the results easily interpretable.

The numerical results of topics are difficult for humans to understand. Humans are not good at processing large numbers of vectors and matrices or deriving insights from an ocean of numbers. Users may lose interest after inspecting a lot of dry numbers. For example, a user who is not a data expert may ask what it means when a word is multiplied by a number, like the following:

'0.017*"said" + 0.016*"deal" + 0.013*"agre" + 0.012*"million" + ' '0.012*"compani" + 0.011*"union" + 0.011*"european" + 0.010*"agreement" + ' '0.010*"billion" + 0.008*"contract"

We need a better visual tool!

But in our defense, the topics discovered by models mechanically may be truly nonsense. The...

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