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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

The original skip-gram algorithm


The skip-gram algorithm discussed up to this point in the book is actually an improvement over the original skip-gram algorithm proposed in the original paper by Mikolov and others, published in 2013. In this paper, the algorithm did not use an intermediate hidden layer to learn the representations. In contrast, the original algorithm used two different embedding or projection layers (the input and output embeddings in Figure 4.1) and defined a cost function derived from the embeddings themselves:

Figure 4.1: The original skip-gram algorithm without hidden layers

The original negative sampled loss was defined as follows:

Here, v is the input embeddings layer, v' is the output word embeddings layer, corresponds to the embedding vector for the word wi in the input embeddings layer and corresponds to the word vector for the word wi in the output embeddings layer.

is the noise distribution, from which we sample noise samples (for example, it can be as simple...