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by Iti Mathur, Nisheeth Joshi, Deepti Chopra, Jacob Perkins, Nitin Hardeniya
Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK
- Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK
- Table of Contents
- Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK
- Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK
- Credits
- Preface
- 1. Module 1
- 1. Introduction to Natural Language Processing
- 2. Text Wrangling and Cleansing
- 3. Part of Speech Tagging
- 4. Parsing Structure in Text
- 5. NLP Applications
- Building your first NLP application
- Other NLP applications
- Summary
- 6. Text Classification
- 7. Web Crawling
- 8. Using NLTK with Other Python Libraries
- 9. Social Media Mining in Python
- 10. Text Mining at Scale
- 2. Module 2
- 1. Tokenizing Text and WordNet Basics
- Introduction
- Tokenizing text into sentences
- Tokenizing sentences into words
- Tokenizing sentences using regular expressions
- Training a sentence tokenizer
- Filtering stopwords in a tokenized sentence
- Looking up Synsets for a word in WordNet
- Looking up lemmas and synonyms in WordNet
- Calculating WordNet Synset similarity
- Discovering word collocations
- 2. Replacing and Correcting Words
- 3. Creating Custom Corpora
- Introduction
- Setting up a custom corpus
- Creating a wordlist corpus
- Creating a part-of-speech tagged word corpus
- Creating a chunked phrase corpus
- Creating a categorized text corpus
- Creating a categorized chunk corpus reader
- Lazy corpus loading
- Creating a custom corpus view
- Creating a MongoDB-backed corpus reader
- Corpus editing with file locking
- 4. Part-of-speech Tagging
- Introduction
- Default tagging
- Training a unigram part-of-speech tagger
- Combining taggers with backoff tagging
- Training and combining ngram taggers
- Creating a model of likely word tags
- Tagging with regular expressions
- Affix tagging
- Training a Brill tagger
- Training the TnT tagger
- Using WordNet for tagging
- Tagging proper names
- Classifier-based tagging
- Training a tagger with NLTK-Trainer
- 5. Extracting Chunks
- Introduction
- Chunking and chinking with regular expressions
- Merging and splitting chunks with regular expressions
- Expanding and removing chunks with regular expressions
- Partial parsing with regular expressions
- Training a tagger-based chunker
- Classification-based chunking
- Extracting named entities
- Extracting proper noun chunks
- Extracting location chunks
- Training a named entity chunker
- Training a chunker with NLTK-Trainer
- 6. Transforming Chunks and Trees
- Introduction
- Filtering insignificant words from a sentence
- Correcting verb forms
- Swapping verb phrases
- Swapping noun cardinals
- Swapping infinitive phrases
- Singularizing plural nouns
- Chaining chunk transformations
- Converting a chunk tree to text
- Flattening a deep tree
- Creating a shallow tree
- Converting tree labels
- 7. Text Classification
- Introduction
- Bag of words feature extraction
- Training a Naive Bayes classifier
- Training a decision tree classifier
- Training a maximum entropy classifier
- Training scikit-learn classifiers
- Measuring precision and recall of a classifier
- Calculating high information words
- Combining classifiers with voting
- Classifying with multiple binary classifiers
- Training a classifier with NLTK-Trainer
- 8. Distributed Processing and Handling Large Datasets
- Introduction
- Distributed tagging with execnet
- Distributed chunking with execnet
- Parallel list processing with execnet
- Storing a frequency distribution in Redis
- Storing a conditional frequency distribution in Redis
- Storing an ordered dictionary in Redis
- Distributed word scoring with Redis and execnet
- 9. Parsing Specific Data Types
- A. Penn Treebank Part-of-speech Tags
- 1. Tokenizing Text and WordNet Basics
- 3. Module 3
- 1. Working with Strings
- 2. Statistical Language Modeling
- Understanding word frequency
- Applying smoothing on the MLE model
- Develop a back-off mechanism for MLE
- Applying interpolation on data to get mix and match
- Evaluate a language model through perplexity
- Applying metropolis hastings in modeling languages
- Applying Gibbs sampling in language processing
- Summary
- 3. Morphology – Getting Our Feet Wet
- 4. Parts-of-Speech Tagging – Identifying Words
- 5. Parsing – Analyzing Training Data
- 6. Semantic Analysis – Meaning Matters
- 7. Sentiment Analysis – I Am Happy
- 8. Information Retrieval – Accessing Information
- 9. Discourse Analysis – Knowing Is Believing
- 10. Evaluation of NLP Systems – Analyzing Performance
- B. Bibliography
- Index
To summarize, this chapter was intended to give you a brief introduction to Natural Language Processing. The book does assume some background in NLP and programming in Python, but we have tried to give a very quick head start to Python and NLP. We have installed all the related packages that are require for us to work with NLTK. We wanted to give you, with a few simple lines of code, an idea of how to use NLTK. We were able to deliver an amazing word cloud, which is a great way of visualizing the topics in a large amount of unstructured text, and is quite popular in the industry for text analytics. I think the goal was to set up everything around NLTK, and to get Python working smoothly on your system. You should also be able to write and run basic Python programs. I wanted the reader to feel the power of the NLTK library, and build a small running example that will involve a basic application around word cloud. If the reader is able to generate the word cloud, I think we were successful.
In the next few chapters, we will learn more about Python as a language, and its features related to process natural language. We will explore some of the basic NLP preprocessing steps and learn about some of basic concepts related to NLP.
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