This course equips learners with essential skills to prepare text data for further analysis.

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Text Processing

This course is designed to empower you with essential skills for effectively handling text data in the context of natural language processing (NLP). You’ll embark on a transformative journey that will equip you with a solid foundation in text manipulation, enabling you to tackle the challenges of unstructured data. 

The course discusses both fundamental and advanced text preprocessing techniques. You’ll learn how to clean text and remove noise, irrelevant characters, and inconsistencies in text data. Once the data is ready for analysis, you’ll learn text normalization techniques such as stemming, lemmatization, and casing. In addition to mastering preprocessing fundamentals, you’ll also learn techniques such as bag-of-words (BoW) and term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF).

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to position yourself for success in a data-centric world where the ability to extract meaning from unstructured textual information is a prized skill.

Text Preprocessing with Python

Removing all irrelevant features from the dataset

Creating new features to improve machine-learning model performance

Increasing the size of the dataset for a better understanding

Simplifying the text data to make it more understandable

What's the main goal of feature construction in text preprocessing?

What’s the main goal of feature construction in text preprocessing?

Including all possible entities to improve model performance

Excluding all named entities to reduce noise in features

Extracting irrelevant entities to provide diverse information

Ensuring extracted entities are relevant to the analysis to avoid misleading features

Which caution should we consider when extracting named entities for feature construction?

Which caution should we consider when extracting named entities for feature construction?

Converting text data into numerical values

Applying transformations directly to the text

Ensuring different features are on a similar scale

What's the primary goal of feature scaling in text preprocessing?

What’s the primary goal of feature scaling in text preprocessing?

What's the range to which min-max scaling typically transforms features?

What’s the range to which min-max scaling typically transforms features?

Which is _not_ a potential source of date and time data?

Which is not a potential source of date and time data?

It prevents errors in feature extraction and analysis.

It increases the processing time for feature extraction.

It avoids conflicts with other non-date features.

It allows for the simultaneous extraction of multiple date formats.

Why is accuracy and consistency in timestamps important before extracting date-related features?

Why is accuracy and consistency in timestamps important before extracting date-related features?

Suppose you're working with a TF-IDF matrix for a collection of reviews, where each row corresponds to a different review and each column corresponds to a different term. The TF-IDF value for a term in a review is given as follows:
```
Review 1: [0.2, 0.5, 0.9, 0.5]
Review 2: [0.3, 0.4, 0.7, 0.8]
Review 3: [0.1, 0.6, 0.8, 0.9]
```
Which term appears to be the most important across these reviews based on their respective TF-IDF values?

Suppose you’re working with a TF-IDF matrix for a collection of reviews, where each row corresponds to a different review and each column corresponds to a different term. The TF-IDF value for a term in a review is given as follows:
<pre><code>Review 1: [0.2, 0.5, 0.9, 0.5]
Review 2: [0.3, 0.4, 0.7, 0.8]
Review 3: [0.1, 0.6, 0.8, 0.9]
</code></pre>
Which term appears to be the most important across these reviews based on their respective TF-IDF values?

Test yourself on what you’ve learned about feature engineering.

About This Course

Introduction To Text Preprocessing

Regular Expressions

Irrelevant Text Data

Basic Text Preprocessing Techniques

Indexing

Text Transformation

Text Representation

Text Feature Engineering

Advanced Text Preprocessing

N-grams

Text Classification of Customer Reviews

Conclusion

Quiz: Text Feature Engineering