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Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages. As such, NLP is related to the area of human–computer interaction. Many challenges in NLP involve natural language understanding, that is, enabling computers to derive meaning from human or natural language input, and others involve natural language generation.

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How to get the number of syllables in a word?

I have already gone through this post which uses nltk's cmudict for counting the number of syllables in a word: from nltk.corpus import cmudict d = cmudict.dict() def nsyl(word): return [len(list(y …
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nlp - opinion mining vs sentiment analysis

However, I think the book by Manning and his course are a nice start as references to NLP and opinion mining. Can nlp, or something else, be used to derive unstated affect? Yes, it can be. …
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What is the difference between NLP and text mining?

So, this is the difference between text mining and NLP: Text Mining deals with the text itself, while NLP deals with the underlying/latent metadata. … NLP on the other hand allows you to answer questions like; - What is the sentiment? - What are the keywords? (using POS tagging & parsers) - What category of content it falls under? …
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Similarity between two words

The closest would be like Jan has mentioned inhis answer, the Levenstein's distance (also popularly called the edit distance). In information theory and computer science, the Levenshtein distance …
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What is the difference between NLP and text mining?

As discussed with Sean in this Meta post, I thought it would be nice to have a question which can help people who were confused like me, to know about the differences between text mining and NLP! … So, what are the differences between nlp and text-mining? I have included my understanding as an answer. If possible, please explain your answer with a brief example! …
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Is there an alternative to nltk in golang?

Not yet There is no single package in Golang, which acts as versatile as nltk for NLP. However, there are several packages which aim to do it. … Here is a compiled list of such packages: https://github.com/gopherds/resources/blob/master/tooling/README.md#nlp
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Classify phrases as biomedical or non-biomedical

There has been work going on in the healthcare domain which involves NLP. Resources like Pubmed have been put together for the exact same purpose. …
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What does 'Linear regularities among words' mean?

What does that mean in the context of the paper, or in a general context related to NLP? …
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