Name: Basic features and readability scores - Introduction to NLP feature engineering
Uploaded: 2024-11-06T00:00:00Z
Description: Learn to compute basic features such as number of words, number of characters, average word length and number of special characters (such as Twitter hashtags and mentions). You will also learn to compute readability scores and determine the amount of education required to comprehend a piece of text.

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Basic features and readability scores
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Learn to compute basic features such as number of words, number of characters, average word length and number of special characters (such as Twitter hashtags and mentions). You will also learn to compute readability scores and determine the amount of education required to comprehend a piece of text.
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Text preprocessing, POS tagging and NER
In this chapter, you will learn about tokenization and lemmatization. You will then learn how to perform text cleaning, part-of-speech tagging, and named entity recognition using the spaCy library. Upon mastering these concepts, you will proceed to make the Gettysburg address machine-friendly, analyze noun usage in fake news, and identify people mentioned in a TechCrunch article.
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N-Gram models
Learn about n-gram modeling and use it to perform sentiment analysis on movie reviews.
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TF-IDF and similarity scores
Learn how to compute tf-idf weights and the cosine similarity score between two vectors. You will use these concepts to build a movie and a TED Talk recommender. Finally, you will also learn about word embeddings and using word vector representations, you will compute similarities between various Pink Floyd songs.

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