The ABCs of NLP, From A to Z - KDnuggets

There is no shortage of text data available today. Vast amounts of text are created each and every day, with this data ranging from fully structured to semi-structured to fully unstructured. What can we do with this text? Well, quite a bit, actually; depending on exactly what your objectives are, there are 2 intricately related yet differentiated umbrellas of tasks which can be exploited in order to leverage the availability of all of this data. Let's start with some definitions.