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Lemmatization with spaCy

In this exercise, you will practice lemmatization. Lemmatization can be helpful to generate the root form of derived words. This means that given any sentence, we expect the number of lemmas to be less than or equal to the number of tokens.

The first Amazon food review is provided for you in a string called text. en_core_web_sm is loaded as nlp, and has been run on the text to compile document, a Doc container for the text string.

tokens, a list containing tokens for the text is also already loaded for your use.

This exercise is part of the course

Natural Language Processing with spaCy

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Exercise instructions

  • Append the lemma for all tokens in the document, then print the list of lemmas.
  • Print tokens list and observe the differences between tokens and lemmas.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

document = nlp(text)
tokens = [token.text for token in document]

# Append the lemma for all tokens in the document
lemmas = [token.____ for token in document]
print("Lemmas:\n", ____, "\n")

# Print tokens and compare with lemmas list
print("Tokens:\n", ____)
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