Building empathy with your target users and identifying exactly what they need from the product you’re designing. A persona is generally based on this user research and incorporates the needs, goals, and observed behaviour patterns of your target audience. Goal-directed Persona What does my typical user want to do with my product? …

The past couple of months I have been working on a Question Answering System and in my upcoming blog posts, I would like to share some things I learned in the whole process. I haven’t reached a satisfactory accuracy with the answers fetched by the system, but it is work…

Syntactic Parsing or Dependency Parsing is the task of recognizing a sentence and assigning a syntactic structure to it. The most widely used syntactic structure is the parse tree which can be generated using some parsing algorithms. These parse trees are useful in various applications like grammar checking or more…

What are Lexicons? — A word in any language is made of a root or stem word and an affix. These affixes are usually governed by some rules called orthographic rules. These orthographic rules define the spelling rules for a word composition in Morphological Parsingphase. A lexicon is a list of such stem words…

In this blog post, I will be discussing all the tools of Natural Language Processing pertaining to the Linux environment, although most of them would also apply to Windows and Mac. So, let’s get started with some prerequisites. We will use Python’s Pip package installer in order to install various…

Naive Bayes Classifier is probably the most widely used text classifier, it’s a supervised learning algorithm. It can be used to classify blog posts or news articles into different categories like sports, entertainment and so forth. It can be used to detect spam emails. But most important is that it’s…