Text Preprocessing With NLTK

Common Preprocessing Methods for NLP

Raymond Cheng
Towards Data Science
2 min readJun 29, 2020

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Data analytics and text preprocessing
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Intro

Almost every Natural Language Processing (NLP) task requires text to be preprocessed before training a model. Deep learning models cannot use raw text directly, so it is up to us researchers to clean the text ourselves. Depending on the nature of the task, the preprocessing methods can be different. This tutorial will…

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