Introduction to NLP with Disaster Tweets

Natural Language Processing, also known as NLP, is a subfield of computer science, specifically artificial intelligence, that focuses on understanding written and spoken text. It covers various tasks some of which are speech recognition, sentiment analysis and language generation; And, it has been applied in several use cases such as machine translation, spam detection, virtual assistants and chatbots. The project covered in this article is a sentiment analysis project called Natural Language Processing with Disaster Tweets. Sentiment analysis is the process to extract subjective qualities from text such as emotion or attitude. The objective of the project is to identify if a specific tweet is a real disaster or not. The project is ideal for beginners in NLP.