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Deep Learning with Theano

By : Christopher Bourez
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Deep Learning with Theano

By: Christopher Bourez

Overview of this book

This book offers a complete overview of Deep Learning with Theano, a Python-based library that makes optimizing numerical expressions and deep learning models easy on CPU or GPU. The book provides some practical code examples that help the beginner understand how easy it is to build complex neural networks, while more experimented data scientists will appreciate the reach of the book, addressing supervised and unsupervised learning, generative models, reinforcement learning in the fields of image recognition, natural language processing, or game strategy. The book also discusses image recognition tasks that range from simple digit recognition, image classification, object localization, image segmentation, to image captioning. Natural language processing examples include text generation, chatbots, machine translation, and question answering. The last example deals with generating random data that looks real and solving games such as in the Open-AI gym. At the end, this book sums up the best -performing nets for each task. While early research results were based on deep stacks of neural layers, in particular, convolutional layers, the book presents the principles that improved the efficiency of these architectures, in order to help the reader build new custom nets.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Deep Learning with Theano
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Analyzing Sentiment with a Bidirectional LSTM

This chapter is a bit more practical to get a better sense of the commonly used recurrent neural networks and word embeddings presented in the two previous chapters.

It is also an opportunity to introduce the reader to a new application of deep learning, sentiment analysis, which is another field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is a many-to-one scheme, where a variable-length sequence of words has to be assigned to one class. An NLP problem where such a scheme can be used similarly is language detection (english, french, german, italian, and so on).

While the previous chapter demonstrated how to build a recurrent neural network from scratch, this chapter shows how a high-level library built on top of Theano, Keras, can help implement and train the model with prebuilt modules. Thanks to this example, the reader should be able to decide when to use Keras in their projects.

The following points are developed in this chapter:

  • A recap...