The Natural Language Processing Workshop

DoyouwanttolearnhowtocommunicatewithcomputersystemsusingNaturalLanguageProcessing(NLP)techniques,ormakeamachineunderstandhumansentiments?DoyouwanttobuildapplicationslikeSiri,Alexa,orchatbots,evenifyou’veneverdoneitbefore?WithTheNaturalLanguageProcessingWorkshop,youcanexpecttomakeconsistentprogressasabeginner,andgetuptospeedinaninteractiveway,withthehelpofhands-onactivitiesandfunexercises.ThebookstartswithanintroductiontoNLP.You’llstudydifferentapproachestoNLPtasks,andperformexercisesinPythontounderstandtheprocessofpreparingdatasetsforNLPmodels.Next,you’lluseadvancedNLPalgorithmsandvisualizationtechniquestocollectdatasetsfromopenwebsites,andtosummarizeandgeneraterandomtextfromadocument.Inthefinalchapters,you’lluseNLPtocreateachatbotthatdetectspositiveornegativesentimentintextdocumentssuchasmoviereviews.Bytheendofthisbook,you’llbeequippedwiththeessentialNLPtoolsandtechniquesyouneedtosolvecommonbusinessproblemsthatinvolveprocessingtext.