NLP-study-group

Chicago ML Study Group - Natural Language Processing Team

Group Decisions

• Python 2.7

Project Definitions

Political Speeches Over Time

Job Description Biases

Installation/Setup on Mac

Assumes pip, virtualenv, and virtualenvwrapper.

1. From the command line, mkvirtualenv nlp-study-group.
2. If you aren't already placed in the virutal environment by default, run workon nlp-study-group.
3. Run pip install -r requirements_mac.txt to install the dependencies in your virtual environment.
4. jupyter-notebook to open Jupyter Notebook.
5. Alison's work is in notebooks/Alison.ipynb. Feel free add to or make your own notebook. Either way!

Basics of National Language Processing (NLP)

Resources

• NLP for Python - book - HTML or PDF
• Getting Started on Natural Language Processing with Python - 16 page PDF
• Dive Into NLTK
• eBooks
• PyCon 2016 - Stats for Hackers by Jake VanderPlas - Slides
• Alan Downey - PyCon versions
• Stats - what do we need to know?
• 4 Demos
• Natural Language Processing With Python and NLTK p.1 Tokenizing words and Sentences - YouTube
• Elements of Statistical Learning
• Introduction to Statistical Learning
• NLP by Peter Norvig
• Universal Dependencies

Text Examples/Sources

• Project Gutenberg - US Presidents' Inaugural Speeches