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NLP:

NLP is like a bridge that helps computes understanding our human language

it acts as a translator
[Link] text and understand meaning
[Link] text and understand meaning
[Link] language
[Link] questions
[Link] human like text

preprocessing steps:
[Link] case:
makes everything lowercase or uppercase ,mixed cases like "happy" and "HAPPY"
confuse the machine

[Link] thml tags:


if u scrape text from websites ,u get junk like <,>, these confuse the machine

[Link] ulrs:
links like http and etc ..it confuse the machine

[Link] emojis:
emojis can mess things up,if they dont matter remove if they carry meaning ,replace
with words
eg: simile emoji , with smile word

[Link] special characters and punctuations:


dump symbols like #,%,$,&, they are not needed for understanding

6. remove stop words:


these words like i , am , the , they don't add much meaning ,they are useless words
for sentimental analysis

[Link] spellings:
fix the spelling to keep text clean

#Tokenization

we convert the text or like into smaller bits , called tokens

words tokenization :splits text into words

example :hello , i am learning NLP


break text into words or sentences

words tokenization :'hello' ,' ', 'I' ,'learning' , ',' ,'NLP'

sentence tokenization: 'hello' , i am learning NLP ","


tokenization helps break text into sentence

#stemming:
we simplify word to their root form ,by cutting off prefixes and suffixes this is
called stemming

what it does : removes stuff like ,"ing" , "ly"


example :
running - run
fasting - fast
studies - study
happily - happili

problem : it just chops off ends , doesn't always give the real dictionary root
word ,like happili isn't happy

lemmatization :
this is better than stemming , it turns words into their true dictionary root form

what it does : checks a dictionary to find the right root

example :
studying - study
#happily - happy
more accurate becoz it uses real words from a dictionary

#words embeddings:
converting of text data into numerical with meanings

word embedding turn words into numbers vectors

what are they: vectors of numbers representing words could be 3d 123 or 6d 123456

three methods:
[Link] hot encoding ; each word get a unique vector , like
I - [1,0,0] , am - [0,1,0] ,simple but does not show how relate

[Link] of words : counts hoe many times words appear in a sentence

example :
I love coding , coding is fun , i love it ;
what it does : coding, fun, i, is, love

3. TF_IDF (Term Frequency -Inverse Document Frequency):


its smarter than bag of words , weigh words by importance

TF- how often a word appears in a sentence


IDF - how rare it is across all sentences

TF-IDF = TF*IDF

RNN-RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS

DEFINATION:
-RNN is a neural network used to handle sequence data
-data in order like sentences or time series

USES:
processes sequences while remembering past info good for short predictions
saves entire document as 1 and give output
EX-
i am happy
read 'i' -store this info
read 'am' - mix with previous info
read 'happy' - mix with all previous info and gives the output as negative or
positive

problems:
[Link] gradient
during training the network learns by updating weights ,it uses something called a
gradient, its a slope that shows which direction to change. But sometimes this
gradient get smaller and smaller until its basically 0.

[Link] the gradient


the gradient get huge instead of tiny, this makes training unstable and
unpredictable .

[Link](LONG TERM MEMORY):

WHAT IT DOES-
adds a memory cell(extra storage)
uses three gates to control information
[Link] gate :decides what to throw away
[Link] gate: decides what to add
[Link] gate: decides what to share
it remembers important stuff and forgets noise works great for long text

GRU(GRADIENT RECURRENT UNIT):


WHAT IT DOES-
like LSTM but simpler
uses only two gates instead of three
[Link] gate: decides what to keep and change
[Link] gate: decides what to forget
does the same job as LSTM but fater and uses less memory

before 2014 we use LSTM


after 2014 GRU because we have less gate and faster then LSTM

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