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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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Deepti Chopra Deepti Chopra
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Nitin Hardeniya Nitin Hardeniya
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Nisheeth Joshi Nisheeth Joshi
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Chapter 3. Morphology – Getting Our Feet Wet

Morphology may be defined as the study of the composition of words using morphemes. A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that has meaning. In this chapter, we will discuss stemming and lemmatizing, stemmer and lemmatizer for non-English languages, developing a morphological analyzer and morphological generator using machine learning tools, search engines, and many such concepts.

In brief, this chapter will include the following topics:

  • Introducing morphology
  • Understanding stemmer
  • Understanding lemmatization
  • Developing a stemmer for non-English languages
  • Morphological analyzer
  • Morphological generator
  • Search engine

Introducing morphology

Morphology may be defined as the study of the production of tokens with the help of morphemes. A morpheme is the basic unit of language carrying meaning. There are two types of morpheme: stems and affixes (suffixes, prefixes, infixes, and circumfixes).

Stems are also referred to as free morphemes...

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