Natural Language Processing

OK. The header image is not a snazzy NLP/AI/ML photo. Nevertheless, it is a snazzy, nay amazing photo from the equally amazing Vera C. Rubin observatory that went live exactly one week ago. This stunning photo has the two spiral galaxies as well as up to eight galaxies colliding with each other.

I thought I'd start another blog. This time on my experiences with Natural Language Processing.

My brief is to take survey documents and extract animal sightings from them. Sighting details include: animal name, grid reference, address, number of animals sighted or signs thereof, who sighted them, stage of development, etc, etc, etc.

Natural Language Processing seemed to be the way to go. Thus, my development environment is

Lenova laptop with AMD Ryzen 4000 series processor, 8GByte memory and 256 GByte SSD.
Jupyter Labs and Notebook.
Python
SpaCy python NLP package.

​More to follow...