Text classification is the automatic process of predicting one or more categories given a piece of text. For example, predicting if an email is legit or spammy. Thanks to Gmail’s spam classifier, I don’t see or hear from spammy emails! Other than spam detection, text classifiers can be used to determine sentiment in social media …
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What are pre-trained embeddings and why? Pre-trained word embeddings are vector representation of words trained on a large dataset. With pre-trained embeddings, you will essentially be using the weights and vocabulary from the end result of the training process done by….someone else! (It could also be you) One benefit of using pre-trained embeddings is that …
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Scikit-learn’s Tfidftransformer and Tfidfvectorizer aim to do the same thing, which is to convert a collection of raw documents to a matrix of TF-IDF features. The differences between the two modules can be quite confusing and it’s hard to know when to use which. This article shows you how to correctly use each module, the …
Learn what text preprocessing is, the different techniques for text preprocessing and a way to estimate how much preprocessing you may need. For those interested, I’ve also made some text preprocessing code snippets in python for you to try. Now, let’s get started!
Having spent a big part of my career as a graduate student researcher and now a Data Scientist in the industry, I have come to realize that a vast majority of solutions proposed both in academic research papers and in the work place are just not meant to ship — they just don’t scale! And …
About a year ago, I looked high and low for a python word cloud library that I could use from within my Jupyter notebook that was flexible enough to use counts or tfidf when needed or just accept a set of words and corresponding weights. I was a bit surprised that something like that did …
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In this era of use Deep Learning for everything, one may be wondering why you would even use TF-IDF for any task at all ?!! The truth is TF-IDF is easy to understand, easy to compute and is one of the most versatile statistic that shows the relative importance of a word or phrase in …
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Stop words are a set of commonly used words in any language. For example, in English, “the”, “is” and “and”, would easily qualify as stop words. In NLP and text mining applications, stop words are used to eliminate unimportant words, allowing applications to focus on the important words instead. While it is fairly easy to …
Training a Word2Vec model with phrases is very similar to training a Word2Vec model with single words. The difference: you would need to add a layer of intelligence in processing your text data to pre-discover phrases. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create embeddings with phrases without explicitly specifying the number of words …
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The idea behind Word2Vec is pretty simple. We’re making an assumption that the meaning of a word can be inferred by the company it keeps. This is analogous to the saying, “show me your friends, and I’ll tell who you are”. If you have two words that have very similar neighbors (meaning: the context in …