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Sentiment Analysis in R Made Simple
Sentiment analysis is located at the heart of natural language processing, text mining/analytics, and computational linguistics. It refers to any measurement technique by which subjective information is extracted from textual documents. In other words, it extracts the polarity of the expressed sentiment in a range spanning... Read more
This post is the first of a two-part series in which we apply NLP techniques to analyze articles about big data, data science, and AI. If you are tired of the hassles of web scraping, then this post might be just for you. I occasionally web scrape news... Read more
Multi-Task Learning Objectives for Natural Language Processing
In a previous blog post, I discussed how multi-task learning (MTL) can be used to improve the performance of a model by leveraging a related task. Multi-task learning consists of two main components: a) The architecture used for learning and b) the auxiliary task(s) that are trained... Read more
Enhancing Customer Experience with Natural Language Processing
Processing language into actionable components is the future of communication. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. — Nelson Mandela I would venture to... Read more
In my last post, I did some natural language processing and sentiment analysis for Jane Austen’s most well-known novel, Pride and Prejudice. It was just so much fun that I wanted to extend some of that work and compare across her body of writing. I decided... Read more
Stupid word games
Today, Jeroen Ooms announced the appearance on CRAN of an R package for language detection, wrapping the “CLD2″ compact language detector.   Obviously, given a tool like that on a holiday long weekend, my first reaction was to try to confuse it. Two fun games to play with... Read more
You Must Allow Me To Tell You How Ardently I Admire and Love Natural Language Processing
It is a truth universally acknowledged that sentiment analysis is super fun, and Pride and Prejudice is probably my very favorite book in all of literature, so let’s do some Jane Austen natural language processing. Project Gutenberg makes e-texts available for many, many books, including Pride... Read more
Intro to Natural Language Processing
Table of Contents 0.0 Setup 0.1 Python and Anaconda 0.2 Libraries 0.3 Other 1.0 Background 1.1 What is NLP? 1.2 Why is NLP Important? 1.3 Why is NLP a “hard” problem? 1.4 Glossary 2.0 Sentiment Analysis 2.1 Preparing the Data 2.1.1 Training Data 2.1.2 Test Data... Read more
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