Getting Started with Natural Language Processing: US Airline Sentiment Analysis

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of machine learning concerned with processing and analyzing natural language data, usually in the form of text or audio. Some common challenges within NLP include speech recognition, text generation, and sentiment analysis, while some high-profile products deploying NLP models include Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and many of the chatbots one might interact with online. To get started with NLP and introduce some of the core concepts in the field, we're going to build a model that tries to predict the sentiment (positive, neutral, or negative) of tweets relating to US Airlines, using the popular Twitter US Airline Sentiment dataset. Code snippets will be included in this post, but for fully reproducible notebooks and scripts, view all of the notebooks and scripts associated with this project on its Comet project page. Let's start by importing some libraries.