Text Preprocessing to Prepare for Machine Learning in Python — Natural Language Processing
Last Updated on November 5, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Rashida Nasrin Sucky
Originally published on Towards AI.
Some Commonly Used Text Preprocessing Techniques in Python With Examples
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In this age of social media and online business era, text data are coming from everywhere. However, dealing with text data is tricky. Because raw text may come in with all types of impurities, unnecessary noises, spelling mistakes, and more. So, it is necessary to go through proper preprocessing before diving into any modeling with text data.
In this article, we will work on some common text preprocessing techniques to prepare text data for machine learning.
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