A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing: How to start in 16 practical steps

Abstract

We present a gentle introduction to machine learning and we explain it on its application in the field of natural language processing. Namely, we address the task of word sense disambiguation practically in the R software system.

We focus on readers who approach some task and want to use machine learning, and who do not know how to start.

Keywords

• gentle
• introduction
• machine
• learning
• natural
• language
• processing
• start
• practical
• steps