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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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Exercise

Counting nouns in a piece of text

In this exercise, we will write two functions, nouns() and proper_nouns() that will count the number of other nouns and proper nouns in a piece of text respectively.

These functions will take in a piece of text and generate a list containing the POS tags for each word. It will then return the number of proper nouns/other nouns that the text contains. We will use these functions in the next exercise to generate interesting insights about fake news.

The en_core_web_sm model has already been loaded as nlp in this exercise.

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    Using the list count method, count the number of proper nouns (annotated as PROPN) in the pos list.

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    Using the list count method, count the number of other nouns (annotated as NOUN) in the pos list.