n_gram_corpus_preprocessing_(1).ipynb

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        "<a name=\"corpus-preprocessing\"></a>\n",
        "# N-grams Corpus preprocessing\n",
        "\n",
        "The input corpus in this week's assignment is a continuous text that needs some preprocessing so that you can start calculating the n-gram probabilities.\n",
        "\n",
        "Some common preprocessing steps for the language models include:\n",
        "- lowercasing the text\n",
        "- remove special characters\n",
        "- split text to list of sentences\n",
        "- split sentence into list words\n",
        "\n",
        "Can you note the similarities and differences among the preprocessing steps shown during the Course 1 of this specialization?"
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            "[nltk_data] Downloading package punkt to\n",
            "[nltk_data]     C:\\Users\\anish\\AppData\\Roaming\\nltk_data...\n",
            "[nltk_data]   Unzipping tokenizers\\punkt.zip.\n"
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        "import nltk               # NLP toolkit\n",
        "import re                 # Library for Regular expression operations\n",
        "\n",
        "nltk.download('punkt')    # Download the Punkt sentence tokenizer"
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        "<a name=\"lowercase\"></a>\n",
        "### Lowercase\n",
        "\n",
        "Words at the beginning of a sentence and names start with a capital letter. However, when counting words, you want to treat them the same as if they appeared in the middle of a sentence.\n",
        "\n",
        "You can do that by converting the text to lowercase using [str.lowercase]\n",
        "(https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=split#str.lower).\n"
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          "text": [
            "learning% makes 'me' happy. i am happy be-cause i am learning! :)\n"
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        "# change the corpus to lowercase\n",
        "corpus = \"Learning% makes 'me' happy. I am happy be-cause I am learning! :)\"\n",
        "corpus = corpus.lower()\n",
        "\n",
        "# note that word \"learning\" will now be the same regardless of its position in the sentence\n",
        "print(corpus)"
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        "<a name=\"special-characters\"></a>\n",
        "### Remove special charactes\n",
        "\n",
        "Some of the characters may need to be removed from the corpus before we start processing the text to find n-grams.\n",
        "\n",
        "Often, the special characters such as double quotes '\"' or dash '-' are removed, and the interpunction such as full stop '.' or question mark '?' are left in the corpus."
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            "learning makes me happy. i am happy because i am learning! \n"
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        "# remove special characters\n",
        "corpus = \"learning% makes 'me' happy. i am happy be-cause i am learning! :)\"\n",
        "corpus = re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9.?! ]+', '', corpus)\n",
        "print(corpus)"
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      "source": [
        "Note that this process gets rid of the happy face made with punctuations :). Remember that for sentiment analysis, this emoticon was very important. However, we will not consider it here."
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        "<a name=\"text-splitting\"></a>\n",
        "### Text splitting\n",
        "\n",
        "In the assignment, the sentences in the corpus are separated by a special delimiter \\n. You will need to split the corpus into an array of sentences using this delimiter.\n",
        "One way to do that is by using the [str.split](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=split#str.split) method.\n",
        "\n",
        "\n",
        "The following examples illustrate how to use this method. The code shows:\n",
        "- how to split a string containing a date into an array of date parts\n",
        "- how to split a string with time into an array containing hours, minutes and seconds\n",
        "\n",
        "Also, note what happens if there are several back-to-back delimiters like between \"May\" and \"9\"."
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            "date parts = ['Sat', 'May', '', '9', '07:33:35', 'CEST', '2020']\n",
            "time parts = ['07', '33', '35']\n"
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        "# split text by a delimiter to array\n",
        "input_date=\"Sat May  9 07:33:35 CEST 2020\"\n",
        "\n",
        "# get the date parts in array\n",
        "date_parts = input_date.split(' ')\n",
        "print(f\"date parts = {date_parts}\")\n",
        "\n",
        "#get the time parts in array\n",
        "time_parts = date_parts[4].split(':')\n",
        "print(f\"time parts = {time_parts}\")"
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        " This text splitting is more complicated than the tokenization process used for sentiment analysis."
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        "<a name=\"sentence-tokenizing\"></a>\n",
        "### Sentence tokenizing\n",
        "\n",
        "Once you have a list of sentences, the next step is to split each sentence into a list of words.\n",
        "\n",
        "This process could be done in several ways, even using the str.split method described above, but we will use the NLTK library [nltk](https://www.nltk.org/) to help us with that.\n",
        "\n",
        "In the code assignment, you will use the method [word_tokenize](https://www.nltk.org/api/nltk.tokenize.html#nltk.tokenize.punkt.PunktLanguageVars.word_tokenize) to split your sentence into a list of words. Let us try the method in an example."
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            "i am happy because i am learning. -> ['i', 'am', 'happy', 'because', 'i', 'am', 'learning', '.']\n"
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        "# tokenize the sentence into an array of words\n",
        "\n",
        "sentence = 'i am happy because i am learning.'\n",
        "tokenized_sentence = nltk.word_tokenize(sentence)\n",
        "print(f'{sentence} -> {tokenized_sentence}')"
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        "Now that the sentence is tokenized, you can work with each word in the sentence separately. This will be useful later when creating and counting N-grams. In the following code example, you will see how to find the length of each word."
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            " Lengths of the words: \n",
            "[('i', 1), ('am', 2), ('happy', 5), ('because', 7), ('i', 1), ('am', 2), ('learning', 8), ('.', 1)]\n"
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        "# find length of each word in the tokenized sentence\n",
        "sentence = ['i', 'am', 'happy', 'because', 'i', 'am', 'learning', '.']\n",
        "word_lengths = [(word, len(word)) for word in sentence] # Create a list with the word lengths using a list comprehension\n",
        "print(f' Lengths of the words: \\n{word_lengths}')"
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        "The previous result produces a list of pairs. This is not equivalent to a dictionary."
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        "<a name=\"n-grams\"></a>\n",
        "## N-grams\n",
        "<a name=\"sentence-to-ngram\"></a>\n",
        "### Sentence to n-gram\n",
        "\n",
        "The next step is to build n-grams from the tokenized sentences.\n",
        "\n",
        "A sliding window of size n-words can generate the n-grams. The window scans the list of words starting at the sentence beginning, moving by a step of one word until it reaches the end of the sentence.\n",
        "\n",
        "Here is an example method that prints all trigrams in the given sentence."
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            "List all trigrams of sentence: ['i', 'am', 'happy', 'because', 'i', 'am', 'learning', '.']\n",
            "\n",
            "['i', 'am', 'happy']\n",
            "['am', 'happy', 'because']\n",
            "['happy', 'because', 'i']\n",
            "['because', 'i', 'am']\n",
            "['i', 'am', 'learning']\n",
            "['am', 'learning', '.']\n"
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        "def sentence_to_trigram(tokenized_sentence):\n",
        "    \"\"\"\n",
        "    Prints all trigrams in the given tokenized sentence.\n",
        "\n",
        "    Args:\n",
        "        tokenized_sentence: The words list.\n",
        "\n",
        "    Returns:\n",
        "        No output\n",
        "    \"\"\"\n",
        "    # note that the last position of i is 3rd to the end\n",
        "    for i in range(len(tokenized_sentence) - 3 + 1):\n",
        "        # the sliding window starts at position i and contains 3 words\n",
        "        trigram = tokenized_sentence[i : i + 3]\n",
        "        print(trigram)\n",
        "\n",
        "tokenized_sentence = ['i', 'am', 'happy', 'because', 'i', 'am', 'learning', '.']\n",
        "\n",
        "print(f'List all trigrams of sentence: {tokenized_sentence}\\n')\n",
        "sentence_to_trigram(tokenized_sentence)\n"
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        "<a name=\"ngram-prefix\"></a>\n",
        "### Prefix of an n-gram\n",
        "\n",
        "As you saw in the lecture, the n-gram probability is often calculated based on the (n-1)-gram counts. The prefix is needed in the formula to calculate the probability of an n-gram.\n",
        "\n",
        "\\begin{equation*}\n",
        "P(w_n|w_1^{n-1})=\\frac{C(w_1^n)}{C(w_1^{n-1})}\n",
        "\\end{equation*}\n",
        "\n",
        "The following code shows how to get an (n-1)-gram  prefix from n-gram on an example of getting trigram from a 4-gram."
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            "['i', 'am', 'happy']\n"
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        "# get trigram prefix from a 4-gram\n",
        "fourgram = ['i', 'am', 'happy','because']\n",
        "trigram = fourgram[0:-1] # Get the elements from 0, included, up to the last element, not included.\n",
        "print(trigram)"
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        "<a name=\"start-end-of-sentence\"></a>\n",
        "### Start and end of sentence word $<s>$ and $</s>$\n",
        "You could see in the lecture that we must add some special characters at the beginning and the end of each sentence:\n",
        "* $<s>$  at beginning\n",
        "* $</s>$ at the end\n",
        "\n",
        "For n-grams, we must prepend n-1 of characters at the begining of the sentence.\n",
        "\n",
        "Let us have a look at how you can implement this in code.\n"
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            "['<s>', '<s>', 'i', 'am', 'happy', 'because', 'i', 'am', 'learning', '.', '</s>']\n"
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        "# when working with trigrams, you need to prepend 2 <s> and append one </s>\n",
        "n = 3\n",
        "tokenized_sentence = ['i', 'am', 'happy', 'because', 'i', 'am', 'learning', '.']\n",
        "tokenized_sentence = ['<s>'] * (n - 1) + tokenized_sentence + ['</s>']\n",
        "print(tokenized_sentence)"
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        "That's all for the lab for \"N-gram\" lesson of week 3."
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