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Natural Language Processing Fundamentals

You're reading from Natural Language Processing Fundamentals Build intelligent applications that can interpret the human language to deliver impactful results

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789954043

Length 374 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Processing

Tools

NLTK

Concepts

Mobile Application Development

Authors (2):

Sohom Ghosh

Dwight Gunning

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Table of Contents (36) Chapters

About the Book

About the Authors

Learning Objectives

Audience

Approach

Hardware Requirements

Software Requirements

Conventions

Installation and Setup

Working with the Jupyter Notebook

Importing Python Libraries

Installing the Code Bundle

Additional Resources

1. Chpater 1 FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to Natural Language Processing

3. Chpater 2

4. Basic Feature Extraction Methods

5. Developing a Text classifier

6. Chpater 4

7. Collecting Text Data from the Web

8. Topic Modeling

9. Chpater 6

10. Text Summarization and Text Generation

11. Chpater 7

12. Vector Representation

13. Chpater 8

14. Sentiment Analysis

1. Appendix

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Natural Language Processing

3. Chapter 2: Basic Feature Extraction Methods

4. Chapter 3: Developing a Text classifier

5. Chapter 4: Collecting Text Data from the Web

6. Chapter 5: Topic Modeling

7. Chapter 6: Text Summarization and Text Generation

8. Chapter 7: Vector Representation

9. Chapter 8: Sentiment Analysis

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Authors (2)

Sohom Ghosh

Sohom Ghosh

Sohom Ghosh is a passionate data detective with expertise in natural language processing. He has worked extensively in the data science arena with a specialization in deep learning-based text analytics, NLP, and recommendation systems. He has publications in several international conferences and journals.

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Dwight Gunning

Dwight Gunning

Dwight Gunning is a data scientist at FINRA, a financial services regulator in the US. He has extensive experience in Python-based machine learning and hands-on experience with the most popular NLP tools such as NLTK, gensim, and spacy.

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