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Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK

You're reading from   Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK Learn to build expert NLP and machine learning projects using NLTK and other Python libraries

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Product type Course
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787285101
Length 702 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Iti Mathur Iti Mathur
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Jacob Perkins Jacob Perkins
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Nitin Hardeniya Nitin Hardeniya
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Nisheeth Joshi Nisheeth Joshi
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Chapter 9. Discourse Analysis – Knowing Is Believing

Discourse analysis is another one of the applications of Natural Language Processing. Discourse analysis may be defined as the process of determining contextual information that is useful for performing other tasks, such as anaphora resolution (AR) (we will cover this section later in this chapter), NER, and so on.

This chapter will include the following topics:

  • Introducing discourse analysis
  • Discourse analysis using Centering Theory
  • Anaphora resolution

Introducing discourse analysis

The word discourse in linguistic terms means language in use. Discourse analysis may be defined as the process of performing text or language analysis, which involves text interpretation and knowing the social interactions. Discourse analysis may involve dealing with morphemes, n-grams, tenses, verbal aspects, page layouts, and so on. Discourse may be defined as the sequential set of sentences.

In most cases, we can interpret the meaning of the...

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