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Twitter Text Preprocessing & Prediction

Completed 2024 NLP Pipeline Workflow with Text Preprocessing and Feature Extraction

This project focuses on preprocessing Twitter text data and building prediction models for text classification or sentiment analysis. The project includes comprehensive text preprocessing pipelines and machine learning models for Twitter data analysis. The work is divided into preprocessing notebooks and prediction notebooks, with a text-only version focusing on textual features. It demonstrates Twitter-specific text cleaning, feature engineering, and model evaluation for NLP tasks.

Data Science Machine Learning Python Development Natural Language Processing Text Classification Sentiment Analysis Social Media Analytics

Overview

This project focuses on preprocessing Twitter text data and building prediction models for text classification or sentiment analysis. The project includes comprehensive text preprocessing pipelines and machine learning models for Twitter data analysis. The work is divided into preprocessing notebooks and prediction notebooks, with a text-only version focusing on textual features. It demonstrates Twitter-specific text cleaning, feature engineering, and model evaluation for NLP tasks.

Key Features

Twitter-specific text preprocessing (mentions, hashtags, URLs)

Text normalization and cleaning

Tokenization and stop word removal

Stemming or lemmatization

TF-IDF and Count Vectorizer for feature extraction

N-gram features (unigrams, bigrams, trigrams)

Statistical feature extraction (text length, word count)

Multiple classification models

Comprehensive evaluation metrics

Text-only prediction pipeline

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Technical Highlights

Implemented Twitter-specific text preprocessing pipeline

Created comprehensive feature extraction with TF-IDF and n-grams

Built multiple classification models for text prediction

Handled Twitter-specific elements (mentions, hashtags, URLs, emojis)

Demonstrated text normalization and cleaning workflows

Evaluated models with comprehensive metrics

Challenges and Solutions

Twitter-Specific Text Formatting

Created custom preprocessing functions to handle mentions, hashtags, URLs, and special formatting

Text Noise and Variability

Implemented robust normalization and cleaning pipelines for informal language, typos, and slang

Feature Extraction from Text

Used TF-IDF vectorization and statistical feature extraction to convert unstructured text to numerical features

High Dimensionality

Applied feature selection, dimensionality reduction, and sparse representations for large vocabularies

Class Imbalance

Used stratified sampling, class weights, and resampling techniques to handle uneven class distributions

Emojis and Special Characters

Implemented emoji normalization and Unicode handling for special characters

Technologies

NLP

NLTK spaCy

ML Models

Naive Bayes Logistic Regression SVM Random Forest

Vectorization

TF-IDF Count Vectorizer

Preprocessing

Text Cleaning Tokenization Stemming Lemmatization

Data

Pandas NumPy

Environment

Python Jupyter Notebook

Project Information

Status
Completed
Year
2024
Architecture
NLP Pipeline Workflow with Text Preprocessing and Feature Extraction
Category
Data Science