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The TensorFlow Workshop

By : Matthew Moocarme, Abhranshu Bagchi, Anthony So, Anthony Maddalone
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The TensorFlow Workshop

By: Matthew Moocarme, Abhranshu Bagchi, Anthony So, Anthony Maddalone

Overview of this book

Getting to grips with tensors, deep learning, and neural networks can be intimidating and confusing for anyone, no matter their experience level. The breadth of information out there, often written at a very high level and aimed at advanced practitioners, can make getting started even more challenging. If this sounds familiar to you, The TensorFlow Workshop is here to help. Combining clear explanations, realistic examples, and plenty of hands-on practice, it’ll quickly get you up and running. You’ll start off with the basics – learning how to load data into TensorFlow, perform tensor operations, and utilize common optimizers and activation functions. As you progress, you’ll experiment with different TensorFlow development tools, including TensorBoard, TensorFlow Hub, and Google Colab, before moving on to solve regression and classification problems with sequential models. Building on this solid foundation, you’ll learn how to tune models and work with different types of neural network, getting hands-on with real-world deep learning applications such as text encoding, temperature forecasting, image augmentation, and audio processing. By the end of this deep learning book, you’ll have the skills, knowledge, and confidence to tackle your own ambitious deep learning projects with TensorFlow.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface

Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a quickly growing field that is both challenging and rewarding. NLP takes valuable data that has traditionally been very difficult for machines to make sense of and turns it into information that can be used. This data can take the form of sentences, words, characters, text, and audio, to name a few. Why is this such a difficult task for machines? To answer that question, consider the following examples.

Recall the two sentences: it is what it is and is it what it is. These two sentences, though they have completely opposite semantic meanings, would have the exact same representations in this bag of words format. This is because they have the exact same words, just in a different order. So, you know that you need to use a sequential model to process this, but what else? There are several tools and techniques that have been developed to solve these problems. But before you get to that, you need to learn how to preprocess...