DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN PYTHON
Named Entity
Recognition
Katharine Jarmul
Founder, kjamistan
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
What is Named Entity Recognition?
NLP task to identify important named entities in the text
People, places, organizations
Dates, states, works of art
... and other categories!
Can be used alongside topic identification
... or on its own!
Who? What? When? Where?
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
Example of NER
(Source: Europeana Newspapers (http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu))
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
nltk and the Stanford CoreNLP Library
The Stanford CoreNLP library:
Integrated into Python via nltk
Java based
Support for NER as well as coreference and dependency trees
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
Using nltk for Named Entity Recognition
In [1]: import nltk
In [2]: sentence = '''In New York, I like to ride the Metro to visit MOMA
and some restaurants rated well by Ruth Reichl.'''
In [3]: tokenized_sent = nltk.word_tokenize(sentence)
In [4]: tagged_sent = nltk.pos_tag(tokenized_sent)
In [5]: tagged_sent[:3]
Out[5]: [('In', 'IN'), ('New', 'NNP'), ('York', 'NNP')]
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nltk's ne_chunk()
In [6]: print(nltk.ne_chunk(tagged_sent))
(S
In/IN
(GPE New/NNP York/NNP)
,/,
I/PRP
like/VBP
to/TO
ride/VB
the/DT
(ORGANIZATION Metro/NNP)
to/TO
visit/VB
(ORGANIZATION MOMA/NNP)
and/CC
some/DT
restaurants/NNS
rated/VBN
well/RB
by/IN
(PERSON Ruth/NNP Reichl/NNP)
./.)
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN PYTHON
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DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN PYTHON
Introduction to SpaCy
Katharine Jarmul
Founder, kjamistan
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
What is SpaCy?
NLP library similar to gensim, with different implementations
Focus on creating NLP pipelines to generate models and corpora
Open-source, with extra libraries and tools
Displacy
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
Displacy entity recognition visualizer
(source: https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy-ent/)
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
SpaCy NER
In [1]: import spacy
In [2]: nlp = spacy.load('en')
In [3]: nlp.entity
Out[3]: <spacy.pipeline.EntityRecognizer at 0x7f76b75e68b8>
In [4]: doc = nlp("""Berlin is the capital of Germany;
and the residence of Chancellor Angela Merkel.""")
In [5]: doc.ents
Out[5]: (Berlin, Germany, Angela Merkel)
In [6]: print(doc.ents[0], doc.ents[0].label_)
Berlin GPE
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
Why use SpaCy for NER?
Easy pipeline creation
Different entity types compared to nltk
Informal language corpora
Easily find entities in Tweets and chat messages
Quickly growing!
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN PYTHON
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DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN PYTHON
Multilingual NER with
polyglot
Katharine Jarmul
Founder, kjamistan
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
What is polyglot?
NLP library which uses word
vectors
Why polyglot?
Vectors for many different
languages
More than 130!
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
Spanish NER with polyglot
In [1]: from polyglot.text import Text
In [2]: ẗext = """El presidente de la Generalitat de Cataluña,
Carles Puigdemont, ha afirmado hoy a la alcaldesa
de Madrid, Manuela Carmena, que en su etapa de
alcalde de Girona (de julio de 2011 a enero de 2016)
hizo una gran promoción de Madrid."""
In [3]: ptext = Text(text)
In [4]: ptext.entities
Out[4]:
[I-ORG(['Generalitat', 'de']),
I-LOC(['Generalitat', 'de', 'Cataluña']),
I-PER(['Carles', 'Puigdemont']),
I-LOC(['Madrid']),
I-PER(['Manuela', 'Carmena']),
I-LOC(['Girona']),
I-LOC(['Madrid'])]
DataCamp Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python
INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN PYTHON
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