Text Mining and Analytics: Pattern Matching & Information Extraction

“Sometimes business wants to find similar-sounding words specific word occurrences and sentiment from the raw text. Having learned to extract foundational linguistic features from the text the next objective is to learn the heuristic approach to extract non-foundational features which are subjective.

In this course learn how to extract synonyms and hypernyms with WordNet a widely used tool from the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK). Next explore the regex module in Python to perform NLTK chunking and to extract specific required patterns. Finally you will solve a real-world use case by finding sentiments of movies using WordNet.

After comleting this course you will be able to use a heuristic approach of natural language processing (NLP) and to illustrate the use of WordNet NLTK chunking regex and SentiWordNet. “