I Hate You, NLP... ;)

Overview

This talk aims to introduce the audience to the wide array of tools available in Python focused on sentiment analysis. It will cover basic semantic mapping, emoticon mapping as well as some of the more recent developments in applying neural networks, machine learning and deep learning to natural language processing. Participants will also learn some of the pitfalls of the different approaches and see some hands-on code for sentiment analysis.

Outline

• NLP: then and now
• Why Emotions Are Hard
• Simple Analysis
  • TextBlob (& other available libraries)
  • Bag of Words
  • Naive Bayes
• Complex Analysis
  • Preprocessing with word2vec
  • Metamind & RNLN
  • Optimus & CNN
  • TensorFlow
  • Watson
• Live Demo
• Q&A