Natural Language Processing (NLP) 2020

It is year 2020 and vision 20/20. It is time to do another survey article of Natural Language Processing (NLP) field. What is there to learn / know? What is new?

Getting started with NLP

Great sources for NLP

Social media : Twitter, Facebook, comments, posts, forums

Transcripts : events, conferences, speech, call transcripts, zoom transcripts

Smart voice assistants : Alexa, Siri, Google Home

Libraries for NLP

SpaCy: works for Japanese, Chinese and English up to 45 languages. Source 4

Scikit-Learn sklearn TFIDF vectorizer

Advanced NLP

Machine Translation

Transfer learning in NLP

Algorithms

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling

Projects

Sentiment analysis

Fake news classifier

Trump tweet maker

Can combine sentiment analysis with tweet analysis. Great Natural Language Processing (NLP) projects for hackathon : retrieve keywords from tweets (entities recognition for hashtags, brand names), pipe the result into a sentiment analysis model, predict sentiment negativity to positivity zero stars to five stars. 

Sources
5. https://spacy.io/usage/models#languages