Building a FAQ Chatbot in Python – The Future of Information Searching

Introduction What do we do when we need any information? Simple: “We Ask, and Google Tells”. But if the answer depends on multiple variables, then the existing Ask-Tell model tends to sputter. State of the art search engines usually cannot handle such requests. We would have to search for information available in bits and pieces and then try to filter and assemble relevant parts together. Sounds time consuming, doesn’t it? Source: Inbenta This Ask-Tell model is evolving rapidly with the […]

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A Comprehensive Guide to Build your own Language Model in Python!

Overview Language models are a crucial component in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) journey These language models power all the popular NLP applications we are familiar with – Google Assistant, Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, etc. We will go from basic language models to advanced ones in Python here   Introduction We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. Language is such a powerful medium of communication. We have the ability to build projects from scratch […]

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Introduction to StanfordNLP: An Incredible State-of-the-Art NLP Library for 53 Languages (with Python code)

Introduction A common challenge I came across while learning Natural Language Processing (NLP) – can we build models for non-English languages? The answer has been no for quite a long time. Each language has its own grammatical patterns and linguistic nuances. And there just aren’t many datasets available in other languages. That’s where Stanford’s latest NLP library steps in – StanfordNLP. I could barely contain my excitement when I read the news last week. The authors claimed StanfordNLP could support more […]

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Knowledge Graph – A Powerful Data Science Technique to Mine Information from Text (with Python code)

Overview Knowledge graphs are one of the most fascinating concepts in data science Learn how to build a knowledge graph to mine information from Wikipedia pages You will be working hands-on in Python to build a knowledge graph using the popular spaCy library   Introduction Lionel Messi needs no introduction. Even folks who don’t follow football have heard about the brilliance of one of the greatest players to have graced the sport. Here’s his Wikipedia page: Quite a lot of […]

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