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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

Getting started with semantic search

In this recipe, we will get a glimpse of how to get started on expanding search with the help of a word2vec model. When we search for a term, we expect the search engine to show us a result with a synonym when we didn't use the exact term contained in the document. Search engines are far more complicated than what we'll show in the recipe, but this should give you a taste of what it's like to build a customizable search engine.

Getting ready

We will be using an IMDb dataset from Kaggle, which can be downloaded from https://www.kaggle.com/PromptCloudHQ/imdb-data. Download the dataset and unzip the CSV file.

We will also use a small-scale Python search engine called Whoosh. Install it using pip:

pip install whoosh

We will also be using the pretrained word2vec model from the Using word embeddings recipe.

How to do it…

We will create a class for the Whoosh search engine that will create a document index based...

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