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Hands-On Natural Language Processing with PyTorch 1.x

By : Thomas Dop
Book Image

Hands-On Natural Language Processing with PyTorch 1.x

By: Thomas Dop

Overview of this book

In the internet age, where an increasing volume of text data is generated daily from social media and other platforms, being able to make sense of that data is a crucial skill. With this book, you’ll learn how to extract valuable insights from text by building deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Starting by understanding how to install PyTorch and using CUDA to accelerate the processing speed, you’ll explore how the NLP architecture works with the help of practical examples. This PyTorch NLP book will guide you through core concepts such as word embeddings, CBOW, and tokenization in PyTorch. You’ll then learn techniques for processing textual data and see how deep learning can be used for NLP tasks. The book demonstrates how to implement deep learning and neural network architectures to build models that will allow you to classify and translate text and perform sentiment analysis. Finally, you’ll learn how to build advanced NLP models, such as conversational chatbots. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have understood the different NLP problems that can be solved using deep learning with PyTorch, but also be able to build models to solve them.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1: Essentials of PyTorch 1.x for NLP
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Section 3: Real-World NLP Applications Using PyTorch 1.x

Future NLP tasks

While the majority of this book has been focused on text classification and sequence generation, there are a number of other NLP tasks that we haven't really touched on. While many of these are more interesting from an academic perspective rather than a practical perspective, it's important to understand these tasks as they form the basis of how language is constructed and formed. Anything we, as NLP data scientists, can do to better understand the formation of natural language will only improve our understanding of the subject matter. In this section, we will discuss, in more detail, four key areas of future development in NLP:

  • Constituency parsing
  • Semantic role labeling
  • Textual entailment
  • Machine comprehension

Constituency parsing

Constituency parsing (also known as syntactic parsing) is the act of identifying parts of a sentence and assigning a syntactic structure to it. This syntactic structure is largely determined by the...