nlpaug VS spaCy

You'd want to use an NLP method for this as in order to determine optimal homonyms there would have to be some method of deriving context from the words ahead of and behind the substitution. Take a look at nlpaug.

3) Use deep contextual models with wordpiecing/BPE tokenizers- like all the models: BERT, RoBERTA, etc. On the simpler side, could also swap words with synonyms, which is easy to do with this library: https://github.com/makcedward/nlpaug. Instead of a single n-gram per topic, it might be nice to have a bundle of related words- you could play around with wordnet and see if that's helpful- also easy to do w/ nlpaug.

In practice, even swapping words with dictionary synonyms is a problem because context isn't considered. Lexically sensitive contextual augmentation has become more popular in the last year or two - basically you mask a token using a large language model and then use the model to predict it so it has the full context. It's imperfect, but it's surprisingly useful when you want to upsample data. Nlpaug has an easy-to-use implementation https://github.com/makcedward/nlpaug

A cool library I recently came across for text augmentation is nlpaug, it does a different thing to your approach, but I think both are useful :)

This is a nice starting point: https://github.com/makcedward/nlpaug

Since the dataset is relatively tiny, we are working on augmenting it with NLPAug. We use 2 strategies. Synonymisation and back translation.

Thank you!

The medium post is amazingly written! I basically did the same thing - and you beat me with the data augmentation piece. I tried using nlpaug [0] but it didn't improve the model performance. I'll definitely try swapping book titles around.

[0] https://github.com/makcedward/nlpaug

Are there any shortfalls in nlpaug which justified another project?

Spelling error injection In this method, we add spelling errors to some random word in the sentence. These spelling errors can be added programmatically or using a mapping of common spelling errors such as this list for English.

Hi Community, In this article, I will demonstrate below steps to create your own chatbot by using spaCy (spaCy is an open-source software library for advanced natural language processing, written in the programming languages Python and Cython):

SpaCy: An open-source library providing tools for advanced NLP tasks like tokenization, entity recognition, and part-of-speech tagging.

spaCy https://spacy.io/

In this article, I'm going to walk through a sentiment analysis project from start to finish, using open-source Amazon product reviews. However, using the same approach, you can easily implement mass sentiment analysis on your own products. We'll explore an approach to sentiment analysis with one of the most popular Python NLP packages: spaCy.

Spacy [0] is a state-of-art / easy-to-use NLP library from the pre-LLM era. This post is the Spacy founder's thoughts on how to integrate LLMs with the kind of problems that "traditional" NLP is used for right now. It's an advertisement for Prodigy [1], their paid tool for using LLMs to assist data labeling. That said, I think I largely agree with the premise, and it's worth reading the entire post.

The steps described in "LLM pragmatism" are basically what I see my data science friends doing — it's hard to justify the cost (money and latency) in using LLMs directly for all tasks, and even if you want to you'll need a baseline model to compare against, so why not use LLMs for dataset creation or augmentation in order to train a classic supervised model?

[0] https://spacy.io/

[1] https://prodi.gy/

spaCy

I chose spacy. Although it's not state of the art, it's very well established and stable.