Chapter 7: Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing Using Graphs

Nowadays, a vast amount of information is available in the form of text in terms of natural written language. The very same book you are reading right now is one such example. The news you read every morning, the tweets or the Facebook posts you sent/read earlier, the reports you write for a school assignment, the emails we write continuously – these are all examples of information we exchange via written documents and text. It is undoubtedly the most common way of indirect interaction, as opposed to direct interaction such as talking or gesticulating. It is, therefore, crucial to be able to leverage such kinds of information and extract insights from documents and texts.

The vast amount of information present nowadays in this form has determined the great development and recent advances in the field of natural language processing (NLP).

In this chapter, we will show you how to process natural language...