As I have been playing with R quite a bit and I become rusty with Python, I wanted to see how good the language detection libraries in this environment are and also how they compare with R. I have made a quick search and I found out that langdetect is one derived directly from Google …
I have played a bit with two language detection libraries in R, without going too much in the details of how they work. These are: textcat CLRD The second package does not seem actively maintained, as the last update (version 1.1.0) is now over three years old. It can be however obtained and installed …
I am now aiming at the Capstone project in the Coursera’s Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins, to finish the Specialization. The project is focused on predicting the next word that somebody is going to type, based on several databases to be used to build up the prediction algorithm. There is a lot of previous …
The Coursera JH Data Science Specialization closes with a Capstone Project based on Natural Language Processing. This course is in the references and its lessons are still available for preview but only until the 30 June clicking on the following URL: https://class.coursera.org/nlp/lecture. The lessons in PDF format are still available from Dan Jurafsky at the …