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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

Summary

In this chapter, we first examined several state-of-the-art NLP language models. BERT, in particular, seems to have been widely accepted as the industry standard state-of-the-art language model, and BERT and its variants are widely used by businesses in their own NLP applications.

Next, we examined several areas of focus for machine learning moving forward; namely semantic role labeling, constituency parsing, textual entailment, and machine comprehension. These areas will likely make up a large percentage of the current research being conducted in NLP moving forward.

Now that you have a well-rounded ability and understanding when it comes to NLP deep learning models and how to implement them in PyTorch, perhaps you'll feel inclined to be a part of this research moving forward. Whether this is in an academic or business context, you now hopefully know enough to create your own deep NLP projects from scratch and can use PyTorch to create the models you need to solve...