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Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By : Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra
Book Image

Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By: Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra

Overview of this book

Organizations these days need to integrate popular big data tools such as Apache Spark with highly efficient deep learning libraries if they’re looking to gain faster and more powerful insights from their data. With this book, you’ll discover over 80 recipes to help you train fast, enterprise-grade, deep learning models on Apache Spark. Each recipe addresses a specific problem, and offers a proven, best-practice solution to difficulties encountered while implementing various deep learning algorithms in a distributed environment. The book follows a systematic approach, featuring a balance of theory and tips with best practice solutions to assist you with training different types of neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). You’ll also have access to code written in TensorFlow and Keras that you can run on Spark to solve a variety of deep learning problems in computer vision and natural language processing (NLP), or tweak to tackle other problems encountered in deep learning. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to train and deploy state-of-the-art deep learning models on Apache Spark.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Removing stop words from the text


A stop word is a very common word used in the English language and is often removed from common NLP techniques because they can be distracting. Common stop word would be words such as the or and

Getting ready

This section requires importing the following libraries:

from pyspark.ml.feature import StopWordsRemover 
from pyspark.ml import Pipeline

How to do it...

This section walks through the steps to remove stop words.

  1. Execute the following script to extract each word in chat into a string within an array:
df = df.withColumn('words',F.split(F.col('chat'),' '))
  1. Assign a list of common words to a variable, stop_words, that will be considered stop words using the following script:
stop_words = ['i','me','my','myself','we','our','ours','ourselves',
'you','your','yours','yourself','yourselves','he','him',
'his','himself','she','her','hers','herself','it','its',
'itself','they','them','their','theirs','themselves',
'what','which','who','whom','this','that','these','those...