Text Preprocessing Methods for Deep Learning - DZone AI

Deep Learning, particularly Natural Language Processing (NLP), has been gathering a huge interest nowadays. Some time ago, there was an NLP competition on Kaggle called Quora Question insincerity challenge. The competition is a text classification problem and it becomes easier to understand after working through the competition, as well as by going through the invaluable kernels put up by the Kaggle experts. First, let's start by explaining a little more about the text classification problem in the competition. Text classification is a common task in natural language processing, which transforms a sequence of a text of indefinite length into a category of text.