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How does text become data?

Talkat Strange Loop 2013 · 2013-09-18..09-20· [machine-learning]
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name:Rob Speer
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Shows how raw text becomes usable vectors and facts using concrete tools and numbers: tokenization with nltk, stemming via WordNet, bag‑of‑words + tf-idf vectors, naive Bayes on 2,000 movie reviews hitting 80% accuracy, LSI/GENSIM compressing a 39,000‑word dictionary into 50 topics, and ConceptNet’s background knowledge with ~17 million edges. Demonstrates code (Python, scikit‑learn, gensim, requests) and a working product (Luminoso) that finds similar documents, extracts collocations, and augments corpus‑trained meaning with general commonsense relations.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 3:36Code examples
  3. 7:58Data visualization
  4. 12:47Classification
  5. 18:29Text
  6. 25:01Word Meaning
  7. 29:04ConceptNet
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