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Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

By : Karthiek Reddy Bokka, Shubhangi Hora, Tanuj Jain, Monicah Wambugu
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Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

By: Karthiek Reddy Bokka, Shubhangi Hora, Tanuj Jain, Monicah Wambugu

Overview of this book

Applying deep learning approaches to various NLP tasks can take your computational algorithms to a completely new level in terms of speed and accuracy. Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing starts by highlighting the basic building blocks of the natural language processing domain. The book goes on to introduce the problems that you can solve using state-of-the-art neural network models. After this, delving into the various neural network architectures and their specific areas of application will help you to understand how to select the best model to suit your needs. As you advance through this deep learning book, you’ll study convolutional, recurrent, and recursive neural networks, in addition to covering long short-term memory networks (LSTM). Understanding these networks will help you to implement their models using Keras. In later chapters, you will be able to develop a trigger word detection application using NLP techniques such as attention model and beam search. By the end of this book, you will not only have sound knowledge of natural language processing, but also be able to select the best text preprocessing and neural network models to solve a number of NLP issues.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we were introduced to a subset of machine learning—deep learning. You learned about the differences and similarities between the two categories of techniques and understood the requirement for deep learning and its applications.

Neural networks are artificial representations of the biological neural networks that are present in the human brain. Artificial neural networks are frameworks that are incorporated by deep learning models and have proven to be increasingly efficient and accurate. They are used in several fields, from training self-driving cars to detecting cancer cells in very early stages.

We studied the different components of a neural network and learned a network trains and corrects itself, with the help of the loss function, the gradient descent algorithm and backpropagation. You also learned how to perform sentiment analysis on text inputs! Furthermore, you learned the basics of deploying a model as a service.

In the coming chapters, you will learn...