Why must text data be pre-processed ?

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon Introduction Language is a structured medium we humans use to communicate with each other. Language can be in the form of speech or text. “Blah blah”, “Meh”, “zzzz…” Yup, we can understand these words. But the question is, “Can computers understand these?” Nop, machines can’t understandthese. In fact, machines can’t understand any text data at all, be it the word “blah” or the word “machine”. They only understand numbers. […]

Must Known Techniques for text preprocessing in NLP

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon In any Machine learning task, cleaning or preprocessing the data is as important as model building. Text data is one of the most unstructured forms of available data and when comes to deal with Human language then it’s too complex. Have you ever wondered how Alexa, Siri, Google assistant can understand, process, and respond in Human language. NLP is a technology that works behind it where before any response […]