Natural Language Processing Notes

A Guide To Encoding Text In Python

Teaching Computers to Comprehend Human Language

Kurtis Pykes
Towards Data Science
6 min readMar 20, 2021

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The reason we encode text is that computers do not understand characters, words, or sentences; Computers can only process numbers, therefore, if we wish to teach computers to understand natural language then we ought to encode the textual data…

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