aunedelec / nlp1_insights_into_classic_texts

Working with Language Parsing

Project 1 : Insights into Classic Texts (and Nicki Minaj)

This project was realized within Codecademy's course Apply Natural Language Processing with Python. The code is available both as a Jupyther Notebook and as a Python script for better accessibility and clarity.

Key notions

• Text preprocessing
• Word tokenization and Word Lemmatization
• Natural Language Parsing with regular expressions
• NLTK

Project overview

• Conduct a natural language parsing analysis to delve deeper into Homer's The Iliad.
• Uncover the main topics of discussion within the novel and begin to decipher some of the author’s thoughts and beliefs embedded within the text.

Personal touch

I was curious about the limits of this way of parsing a text, so I decided to replace Homer's classic by Nicki Minaj's classic Chun-Li. The purpose of this experiment was to observe :

• How this script for natural language parsing performs on a shorter text.
• How the script deals with slang words, abbreviations and interjections.
• Compare the syntactic structure of a classical text with a very modern one.
• If we could identify some deep hidden philosophical meaning within the song.