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Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow

By : Motaz Saad, Thushan Ganegedara
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Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow

By: Motaz Saad, Thushan Ganegedara

Overview of this book

Natural language processing (NLP) supplies the majority of data available to deep learning applications, while TensorFlow is the most important deep learning framework currently available. Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow brings TensorFlow and NLP together to give you invaluable tools to work with the immense volume of unstructured data in today’s data streams, and apply these tools to specific NLP tasks. Thushan Ganegedara starts by giving you a grounding in NLP and TensorFlow basics. You'll then learn how to use Word2vec, including advanced extensions, to create word embeddings that turn sequences of words into vectors accessible to deep learning algorithms. Chapters on classical deep learning algorithms, like convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN), demonstrate important NLP tasks as sentence classification and language generation. You will learn how to apply high-performance RNN models, like long short-term memory (LSTM) cells, to NLP tasks. You will also explore neural machine translation and implement a neural machine translator. After reading this book, you will gain an understanding of NLP and you'll have the skills to apply TensorFlow in deep learning NLP applications, and how to perform specific NLP tasks.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow
Contributors
Preface
Index

Penetration into other research fields


Next we will discuss three different areas, which have blended with NLP to produce some interesting machine learning tasks. We will be discussing three specific areas:

  • NLP and computer vision

  • NLP and reinforcement learning

  • NLP and generative adversarial networks

Combining NLP with computer vision

First we will discuss two applications where NLP is combined with various computer vision applications to process multimodal data (that is, images and text).

Visual Question Answering (VQA)

VQA is a novel research area, where the focus is to produce an answer to a textual question about an image. For example, consider these questions about Figure 11.5:

Q1: What color is the sofa?

Q2: How many black chairs are there?

Figure 11.5: The image about which we've asked questions

With this type of information provided to the system, the system should output the following (preferably):

Answer Q1: The color of the sofa is black

Answer Q2: There are two black chairs in the room

The...