Is a movie review positive or negative? Five different classifiers decide

As part of the Machine Learning in Practice course at Radboud University, I took part in two Kaggle competitions in a team with five other students. This blog will revolve around the competition called Bag of Words Meets Bags of Popcorn.   “Is AI a bad thing?” This competition concerned sentiment analysis of movie reviews. …

Named Entity Recognition (NER): Extracting a timeline from biographical texts

Texts written in natural language are generally unstructured, meaning that they are not organized in a pre-defined structure, such as a table. Rather, writers often mean to tell a story, and let their text flow freely in sentences and paragraphs. While such texts typically are more fun to read, the information they contain is not …