Welcome to this tutorial on Natural Language Processing (NLP)! NLP is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the interaction between computers and humans through natural language. It involves understanding, interpreting, and generating human language.

Basics of NLP

  • Text Preprocessing: Cleaning and preparing text data for NLP tasks.

    • Tokenization: Splitting text into words or sentences.
    • Stopwords Removal: Removing common words that do not add much meaning.
    • Stemming/Lemmatization: Reducing words to their base or root form.
  • Feature Extraction: Extracting meaningful information from text data.

    • Bag of Words: Representing text as a collection of words.
    • TF-IDF: Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency, a measure of importance.
  • Modeling: Building models to analyze and understand language.

    • Naive Bayes: A probabilistic classifier based on Bayes' theorem.
    • Support Vector Machines (SVM): A supervised learning model.

Useful Resources

NLP Flowchart

Conclusion

NLP is a rapidly growing field with numerous applications in various industries. By understanding the basics of NLP, you can leverage its power to create innovative solutions.

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