When I was first starting to learn NLP, I remember getting frustrated or intimidated by information overload so I’ve decided to write a post that covers the bare minimum. You know what they say, “Walk before you run!”
This is a very gentle introduction so we won’t be using any fancy code here.
In a nutshell, natural language processing or NLP simply refers to the process of reading and understanding written or spoken language using a computer. At its simplest use case, we can use a computer to read a book, for example, and count how many times each word was used instead of us manually doing it.
NLP is a big topic and there’s already been a ton of articles written on the subject so we won’t be covering that here. Instead, we’ll focus on how to quickly do one of the simplest but useful techniques in NLP: N-gram ranking

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