Elegant Text Pre-Processing with NLTK in sklearn Pipeline

Jumpstart your NLP code with a dose of component architecture

A typical NLP prediction pipeline begins with ingestion of textual data. Textual data from various sources have different characteristics necessitating some amount of pre-processing before any model can be applied on them.

In this article we will first go over reasons for pre-processing and cover different types of pre-processing along the way. Then we will go through various text cleaning and preprocessing techniques along …

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