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Introducing Natural Language Processing
Why in the world would a network analysis book start with Natural Language Processing (NLP)?! I expect you to be asking yourself that question, and it’s a very good question. Here is why: we humans use language and text to describe the world around us. We write about the people we know, the things we do, the places we visit, and so on. Text can be used to reveal relationships that exist. The relationship between things can be shown via network visualization. It can be studied with network analysis.
In short, text can be used to extract interesting relationships, and networks can be used to study those relationships much further. We will use text and NLP to identify relationships and network analysis ...
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