Make NLP easy by building chatbots and models, and executing various NLP tasks to gain data-driven insights from raw text data Key Features Get familiar with key natural language processing (NLP) concepts and terminology Explore the functionalities and features of popular NLP tools Learn how to use Python programming and third-party libraries to perform NLP tasks Book DescriptionDo you want to learn how to communicate with computer systems using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, or make a machine understand human sentiments? Do you want to build applications like Siri, Alexa, or chatbots, even if you've never done it before? With The Natural Language Processing Workshop, you can expect to make consistent progress as a beginner, and get up to speed in an interactive way, with the help of hands-on activities and fun exercises. The book starts with an introduction to NLP. You'll study different approaches to NLP tasks, and perform exercises in Python to understand the process of preparing datasets for NLP models. Next, you'll use advanced NLP algorithms and visualization techniques to collect datasets from open websites, and to summarize and generate random text from a document. In the final chapters, you'll use NLP to create a chatbot that detects positive or negative sentiment in text documents such as movie reviews. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with the essential NLP tools and techniques you need to solve common business problems that involve processing text. What you will learn Obtain, verify, clean and transform text data into a correct format for use Use methods such as tokenization and stemming for text extraction Develop a classifier to classify comments in Wikipedia articles Collect data from open websites with the help of web scraping Train a model to detect topics in a set of documents using topic modeling Discover techniques to represent text as word and document vectors Who this book is forThis book is for beginner to mid-level data scientists, machine learning developers, and NLP enthusiasts. A basic understanding of machine learning and NLP is required to help you grasp the topics in this workshop more quickly.

Use Python and NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) to build out your own text classifiers and solve common NLP problems. Key Features Assimilate key NLP concepts and terminologies Explore popular NLP tools and techniques Gain practical experience using NLP in application code Book DescriptionIf NLP hasn't been your forte, Natural Language Processing Fundamentals will make sure you set off to a steady start. This comprehensive guide will show you how to effectively use Python libraries and NLP concepts to solve various problems. You'll be introduced to natural language processing and its applications through examples and exercises. This will be followed by an introduction to the initial stages of solving a problem, which includes problem definition, getting text data, and preparing it for modeling. With exposure to concepts like advanced natural language processing algorithms and visualization techniques, you'll learn how to create applications that can extract information from unstructured data and present it as impactful visuals. Although you will continue to learn NLP-based techniques, the focus will gradually shift to developing useful applications. In these sections, you'll understand how to apply NLP techniques to answer questions as can be used in chatbots. By the end of this book, you'll be able to accomplish a varied range of assignments ranging from identifying the most suitable type of NLP task for solving a problem to using a tool like spacy or gensim for performing sentiment analysis. The book will easily equip you with the knowledge you need to build applications that interpret human language. What you will learn Obtain, verify, and clean data before transforming it into a correct format for use Perform data analysis and machine learning tasks using Python Understand the basics of computational linguistics Build models for general natural language processing tasks Evaluate the performance of a model with the right metrics Visualize, quantify, and perform exploratory analysis from any text data Who this book is forNatural Language Processing Fundamentals is designed for novice and mid-level data scientists and machine learning developers who want to gather and analyze text data to build an NLP-powered product. It'll help you to have prior experience of coding in Python using data types, writing functions, and importing libraries. Some experience with linguistics and probability is useful but not necessary.