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The Natural Language Processing Workshop

You're reading from   The Natural Language Processing Workshop Confidently design and build your own NLP projects with this easy-to-understand practical guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800208421
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sohom Ghosh Sohom Ghosh
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Nipun Sadvilkar Nipun Sadvilkar
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Rohan Chopra Rohan Chopra
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Muzaffar Bashir Shah Muzaffar Bashir Shah
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Dwight Gunning Dwight Gunning
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Aniruddha M. Godbole Aniruddha M. Godbole
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Preface
1. Introduction to Natural Language Processing 2. Feature Extraction Methods FREE CHAPTER 3. Developing a Text Classifier 4. Collecting Text Data with Web Scraping and APIs 5. Topic Modeling 6. Vector Representation 7. Text Generation and Summarization 8. Sentiment Analysis Appendix

Cleaning Text Data

The text data that we are going to discuss here is unstructured text data, which consists of written sentences. Most of the time, this text data cannot be used as it is for analysis because it contains some noisy elements, that is, elements that do not really contribute much to the meaning of the sentence at all. These noisy elements need to be removed because they do not contribute to the meaning and semantics of the text. If they're not removed, they can not only waste system memory and processing time, but also negatively impact the accuracy of the results. Data cleaning is the art of extracting meaningful portions from data by eliminating unnecessary details. Consider the sentence, "He tweeted, 'Live coverage of General Elections available at this.tv/show/ge2019. _/\_ Please tune in :) '. "

In this example, to perform NLP tasks on the sentence, we will need to remove the emojis, punctuation, and stop words, and then change the words...

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