Learn NLP and Text Analytics with These Guides and Tutorials

Attention and Memory in Deep Learning and NLP

Deep Learning Modeling NLP/Text Analyticsposted by Denny Britz December 27, 2016

A recent trend in Deep Learning are Attention Mechanisms. In an interview, Ilya Sutskever, now the research director of OpenAI, mentioned that Attention Mechanisms are one of the most exciting advancements, and that they are here to stay. That sounds exciting. But what are Attention Mechanisms?... Read more

Deutsch Credit Future Telling: part 2

Blog Data Visualization NLP/Text Analytics Predictive Analytics classification|Data Science|Predictive Analyticsposted by Gordon Fleetwood August 22, 2016

To continue on this first path, it’s logical to proceed with hyperparameter tuning on the three algorithms previously mentioned in part 1. Here the Random Forest Classifier (R.F.C) pulls ahead with 77% accuracy while the other two are still around 75%. Where there were three on... Read more

Deutsch Credit Future Telling: part 1

Blog NLP/Text Analytics Predictive Analytics classification|Data Science|Predictive Analyticsposted by Gordon Fleetwood August 17, 2016

Classification tasks in Data Science come frequently, but the hardest are those with unbalanced classes. From biology to finance, the real-life situations are numerous. Before balancing your errors, establishing a baseline with the most frequent occurrence can give you over 90% accuracy right off the bat.... Read more

The Sentiment Behind The Declaration of Independence

Blog NLP/Text Analytics Research Data Science|Machine Learning|NLP|sentiment analysisposted by Gordon Fleetwood August 5, 2016

The American political season often conjures numerous references to the country’s origins from either side of the aisle. What better way to join in than by looking at the country’s birth using Data Science, the field that will dictate much of its future. I’ll do this... Read more

Google SyntaxNet

Blog NLP/Text Analytics Platforms Tools Natural Language Processingposted by Gordon Fleetwood June 21, 2016

Google’s TensorFlow framework spread like wildfire upon its release. The slew of tutorials and extensions made an already robust ecosystem even more so. Recently, Google released one of their own extensions. It’s called SyntaxNet, a TensorFlow based syntactic parser for Natural Language Understanding. SyntaxNet uses neural... Read more

Identifying Hate Speech

Blog Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Data Science|Machine Learning|NLP|text analyticsposted by Gordon Fleetwood May 25, 2016

All the beauty of the internet age comes with its fair share of ugliness. Recently, a deluge of articles highlighting the dark side of Twitter has raised concerns for its future. As great as it is to engage with others on a variety of topics, as... Read more

Picking the Perfect Hashtag w/Python

Social media has fundamentally changed the way in which we interact with each other, and with the World Wide Web. Our web activities are now inherently social. We can keep in touch with close friends on facebook without ever needing to pick up a phone or... Read more

The Coolest Natural Language Processing Applications

Blog NLP/Text Analytics Tools & Languagesposted by Gordon Fleetwood May 6, 2016

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is one of the most interesting areas of Data Science. From analysis of the political arena, to organizing meetings, and forming the bedrock of the dream of strong A.I, training computers to truly understand the nuances of human language is part of... Read more

Intro to Text mining using R

Modeling NLP/Text Analytics R Tools & Languages ODSC West 2015|Rposted by Edward Kwartler November 30, 2015

Abstract: Attendees will learn the foundations of text mining approaches in addition to learn basic text mining scripting functions used in R. The audience will learn what text mining is, then perform primary text mining such as keyword scanning, dendogram and word cloud creation. Later participants... Read more

Dissecting the Presidential Debates with an NLP Scalpel

Blog Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Natural Language Processing|NLP|Python|Scikit-learnposted by Alex Perrier November 12, 2015

The recent Republican and Democratic debates drew unprecedented amounts of viewers and the usual lot of controversies and soundbites in the media. Each debate deeply impacted future polls, subsequent fundraising, and the composition of the race. In our polarized media landscape, ensuing political analysis always suffer... Read more