2. Feature Extraction Methods

Activity 2.01: Extracting Top Keywords from the News Article

Solution

The following steps will help you complete this Activity:

1. Open a Jupyter Notebook.
2. Insert a new cell and add the following code to import the necessary libraries and download the data:

   import operator
   from nltk.tokenize import WhitespaceTokenizer
   from nltk import download, stem
   # The below statement will download the stop word list 
   # 'nltk_data/corpora/stopwords/' at home directory of your computer
   download('stopwords')
   from nltk.corpus import stopwords

   The download statement will download the stop word list at nltk_data/corpora/stopwords/ into your system's home directory.

3. Create the different types of methods to perform various NLP tasks:

   Activity 2.01.ipynb

   def load_file(file_path):
       news = ''.join\
                 ([line for line in open...