Part 1: NLP Basics

In this part, you will get an overview of NLP. You will understand the concept of text representation and learn two basic forms of word embeddings. You will learn the key steps in NLP preprocessing including tokenization, lowercase conversion, stop words removal, punctuation removal, stemming, and lemmatization. You will learn how to do coding with spaCy, NLTK, and Gensim, and know how to build a pipeline applicable for any NLP preprocessing in the future.

This part contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Introduction to NLP
• Chapter 2, Text Representation
• Chapter 3, Text Wrangling and Preprocessing