NLP Glossary for Beginners

Demystify Natural Language Processing with these terms.

Natural language processing sounds a lot more daunting than it actually is. In reality, the basic requirements for dabbling in this area are rudimentary programming skills, familiarity with data science principles and a conceptual understanding of how machines process languages.

This glossary will focus on natural language processing for written languages. It will be structured similarly to my other Glossary Article featuring general Data Science terms.

For more reading on NLP:

• Introduction to Natural Language Processing
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• Recurrent Neural Networks for Language Understanding
• Predicting Wine Quality using Text Reviews

General Concepts

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

NLP is the area of machine learning tasks focused on human languages. This includes both the written and spoken language.

Vocabulary

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