An Intro to Natural Language Processing in Python: Framing Text Classification in Familiar Terms

Natural language processing (NLP) is a broad field encompassing many different tasks such as text search, translation, named entity recognition, and topic modeling. On a daily basis, we use NLP whenever we search the internet, ask a voice assistant to tell us the weather forecast, or translate web pages written in another language. Businesses use NLP to understand how their customers talk about their product on social media. NLP may even help you receive better healthcare, as the healthcare industry applies it to electronic health records to better understand patients. A core concern in NLP is how to best represent text data so that a computer can make use of it.