Hands-on NLP Project: A Comprehensive Guide to Information Extraction using Python
Overview
- Information extraction is a powerful NLP concept that will enable you to parse through any piece of text
- Learn how to perform information extraction using NLP techniques in Python
Introduction
I’m a bibliophile – I love pouring through books in my free time and extracting as much knowledge as I can. But in today’s information overload age, the way we read stuff has changed. Most of us tend to skip the entire text, whether that’s an article, a book, or a tutorial – and just read the relevant bits of text.
Let me share a personal example around this. I was recently reading an article about India’s upcoming tour of Australia when I realized how quickly I reached the end of the text. I skimmed over most of it, reading just the headlines and a few bits about Virat Kohli. Here’s a passage from the article:
Can you guess why some of the words are highlighted in red? Yep, I