How to Start An NLP Project

Considerations and basic exploratory data analysis for your NLP data set

Lily Hughes-Robinson
Towards Data Science
5 min readJun 5, 2020

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Natural Language Processing is an exciting niche in artificial intelligence. Its applications are extensive, spanning from understanding sentiment to topic analysis, even generating original texts for human consumption and beyond. However, before one can start implementing some of these analyses, basic preparations that have to be made in order to ensure a project’s success. This includes choosing what text to ingest, as well as some necessary word transformation…

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Lily is a software engineer at a large financial institution. When she isn’t building things with AI, she is hanging out with her wife and toddler in Brooklyn.