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📝 01 — NLP Overview

Natural Language Processing helps computers work with text.

Examples:

  • sentiment analysis
  • spam detection
  • topic classification
  • summarization
  • search
  • question answering

Why Text is Hard

Text is:

  • unstructured
  • high-dimensional
  • context-dependent
  • full of slang and ambiguity

ML models need text converted into numbers.


Common Pipeline

  1. collect text
  2. clean text
  3. tokenize
  4. vectorize
  5. train model
  6. evaluate

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➡️ 02-text-preprocessing