Book Image

Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow

By : Motaz Saad, Thushan Ganegedara
Book Image

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

Chapter 11. Current Trends and the Future of Natural Language Processing

In this chapter, we will discuss the latest trends in NLP and what the future will be like. In the first section, we will talk about the latest trends in NLP. Improving the existing models is a key part of the latest trends. This includes improving the performance of existing models (for example, the word embeddings and machine translation systems).

The rest of the chapter is about the novel areas emerging recently in the field of NLP. We will be driving our discussion into five different subareas, drawing on unique and instructive papers from the discipline. First we will see how NLP has ventured into other research fields, such as computer vision and reinforcement learning. Next we will discuss several novel attempts that have been made to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in NLP, by training a single model to perform several NLP tasks. We will also look at some of the new tasks emerging in the realm of...