a repo for everyday Natural Language Processing in Python

nlp01_preproc.py

functions for preprocessing text in df

• 1.1 transform to lowercase
• 1.2 removing punctuation
• 1.3 removing specific chars
• 1.4 removing whitespace
• 1.5 removing numbers
• 1.6 replacing numeric digits with text
• 1.7 removing non-ASCI chars
• 1.8 removing stop words
• 1.9 removing custom words
• 1.10 adding word counts
• 1.11 lemmatizing (wordnet + pos tag)
• 1.12 stemming (snowball)
• 1.13 parts of speech filter

nlp02_contractions.py

Contractions are words or combinations of words that are shortened by dropping letters and replacing them by an apostrophe.

• 2.1 contractions using dictionary
• 2.2 expanding using contractions library
• 2.3 expanding using pycontractions library

nlp03_sentiment.py

• 3.1 TextBlob
  • Outputs Polarity and Subjectivity
  • Polarity is a float between [-1, 1]. -1 indicates negative sentiment, and +1 indicates positive sentiment
  • Subjectivity is a float between [0, 1], relating to the level of personal opinion, emotion or judgment in the text
• 3.2 VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and Sentiment Reasoner)
  • Outputs pos, neu, neg which is proportion of text attributed to positive, neutral or negative sentiment
  • Also outputs compound in the range [-1, 1], which is the normalized score of all lexicon ratings

Notes on TextBlob and VADER sentiment

• TextBlob may be preferred for formal text, and VADER for more informal text or social media
• neither TextBlob or VADER differentiate based on upper/lower casing of text
• TextBlob will differentiate sentiment based on punctuation (e.g. !) but not for repeated punctuation (e.g. !!!)
• VADER will also differentiate sentiment based on repeated punctuation (e.g. ! vs !!!)