Text Processing For NLP
Sentence Processing
In this presentation, we will explore the world of
Text
Processing for Natural Language Processing and
how it
helps in understanding digital data.
Preprocessing Text Data
Stop Words Removal Lowercasing and
Punctuation Removal
Removing irrelevant words which
don't have much meaning, like "is", Converting text to lowercase and
"a", and "the". removing punctuation to standardize
the data.
Stemming N-grams Generation
Reducing words to their base form, Creating a sequence of N words
e.g. "running" to "run", "talking" to which can help in discovering
"talk". complex relationships between
words.
Tokenization: Breaking
Sentences into Words
Tokenization is a fundamental step in NLP which involves
breaking a sentence into words. It's just like breaking down a
computer code into individual commands.
Part of Speech (POS) Tagging
1 What is POS Tagging?
POS tagging is the process of
categorizing words in a
Importance of POS Tagging 2 sentence into their respective
It helps in understanding the part of speech such as noun,
context and meaning of the verb, adjective, etc.
sentence and is useful for
various NLP tasks like 3 Challenges in POS Tagging
sentiment analysis and
Identifying the correct part of
machine translation.
speech is often context
dependent and requires
sophisticated algorithms to
achieve high accuracy.
Parsing: Identifying
Sentence Structure
Parsing is the process of identifying the sentence structure, and
figuring out the relationship between the words. It helps in
understanding the meaning behind a sentence.
Text Normalization
Lemmatization Stemming Noise Reduction
Converting words to their Reducing words to their Removing repetitive
base form, e.g. "cats" to base form, e.g. "playing" characters/words such as
"cat". to "play". "boook" to "book" and
"hiiii" to "hi".
Feature Extraction
TF-IDF
Assigns weights to words based on
their frequency in the document and
rarity in the corpus.
1 2 3
Bag of Words Word Embeddings
Represents text as a matrix of word Maps words to a high-dimensional
frequency vectors. space where their relationships are
preserved.
Importance of Sentence Processing
1 Contextual Understanding 2 Syntactic Analysis
Sentence processing plays a Sentence processing allows NLP
pivotal role in NLP by enabling a models to perform syntactic
deeper understanding of the analysis, which involves
context in which words and recognizing the grammatical
phrases are used. This structure of sentences. This
understanding is crucial for analysis helps in identifying
accurately interpreting the relationships between words and
meaning of text, as many words their roles within a sentence,
can have multiple meanings facilitating more accurate parsing,
depending on their context within part-of-speech tagging, and
a sentence. grammatical analysis.
Limitations of Sentence Processing
1 Ambiguity Handling 2 Complex Sentence Structures
One of the limitations of sentence Sentence processing may struggle
processing in NLP is the challenge with complex sentence structures
of handling ambiguity. Many that include nested clauses,
sentences can have multiple parenthetical phrases, and other
interpretations based on the syntactic intricacies. NLP models
context, making it challenging for might find it difficult to accurately
NLP models to accurately parse and analyze such sentences,
determine the intended meaning. potentially leading to errors in
This can lead to misinterpretations downstream applications like
and inaccuracies in analysis. syntactic parsing and sentiment
analysis.
Conclusion and Key Takeaways
Text Importance of Improving NLP
Processing for Sentence Models
NLP Processing
Text Pre-processing, Sentence Processing is
Tokenization, POS Sentence processing the key to improving the
Tagging, Parsing, Text helps to understand performance of NLP
Normalization, Feature meaning and context models.
Extraction are key and is important for
techniques. various NLP tasks.
