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Sebastian Raschka
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Sebastian Raschka is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on machine learning and deep learning research. As Lead AI Educator at Grid AI, Sebastian plans to continue following his passion for helping people get into machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Vahid Mirjalili
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Vahid Mirjalili is a deep learning researcher focusing on CV applications. Vahid received a Ph.D. degree in both Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from Michigan State University.
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Preparing the IMDb movie review data for text processing

As mentioned, sentiment analysis, sometimes also called opinion mining, is a popular subdiscipline of the broader field of NLP; it is concerned with analyzing the polarity of documents. A popular task in sentiment analysis is the classification of documents based on the expressed opinions or emotions of the authors with regard to a particular topic.

In this chapter, we will be working with a large dataset of movie reviews from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) that has been collected by Andrew Maas and others (Learning Word Vectors for Sentiment Analysis, A. L. Maas, R. E. Daly, P. T. Pham, D. Huang, A. Y. Ng, and C. Potts, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 142–150, Portland, Oregon, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2011). The movie review dataset consists of 50,000 polar movie reviews that are labeled as either...

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Sebastian Raschka

Sebastian Raschka is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on machine learning and deep learning research. As Lead AI Educator at Grid AI, Sebastian plans to continue following his passion for helping people get into machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Vahid Mirjalili

Vahid Mirjalili is a deep learning researcher focusing on CV applications. Vahid received a Ph.D. degree in both Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from Michigan State University.
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