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Python Natural Language Processing Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Natural Language Processing Cookbook Over 50 recipes to understand, analyze, and generate text for implementing language processing tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838987312
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Zhenya Antić Zhenya Antić
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Learning NLP Basics 2. Chapter 2: Playing with Grammar FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Representing Text – Capturing Semantics 4. Chapter 4: Classifying Texts 5. Chapter 5: Getting Started with Information Extraction 6. Chapter 6: Topic Modeling 7. Chapter 7: Building Chatbots 8. Chapter 8: Visualizing Text Data 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

LDA topic modeling with sklearn

In this recipe, we will use the LDA algorithm to discover topics that appear in the BBC dataset. This algorithm can be thought of as dimensionality reduction, or going from a representation where words are counted (such as how we represent documents using CountVectorizer or TfidfVectorizer, see Chapter 3, Representing Text: Capturing Semantics, we instead represent documents as sets of topics, each topic with a weight. The number of topics is of course much smaller than the number of words in the vocabulary. To learn more about how the LDA algorithm works, see https://highdemandskills.com/topic-modeling-intuitive/.

Getting ready

We will use the sklearn and pandas packages. If you haven't installed them, do so using the following command:

pip install sklearn
pip install pandas

How to do it…

We will use a dataframe to parse in the data, then represent the documents using the CountVectorizer object, apply the LDA algorithm, and...

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