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Natural Language Processing with AWS AI Services

By : Mona M, Premkumar Rangarajan
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Natural Language Processing with AWS AI Services

By: Mona M, Premkumar Rangarajan

Overview of this book

Natural language processing (NLP) uses machine learning to extract information from unstructured data. This book will help you to move quickly from business questions to high-performance models in production. To start with, you'll understand the importance of NLP in today’s business applications and learn the features of Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Textract to build NLP models using Python and Jupyter Notebooks. The book then shows you how to integrate AI in applications for accelerating business outcomes with just a few lines of code. Throughout the book, you'll cover use cases such as smart text search, setting up compliance and controls when processing confidential documents, real-time text analytics, and much more to understand various NLP scenarios. You'll deploy and monitor scalable NLP models in production for real-time and batch requirements. As you advance, you'll explore strategies for including humans in the loop for different purposes in a document processing workflow. Moreover, you'll learn best practices for auto-scaling your NLP inference for enterprise traffic. Whether you're new to ML or an experienced practitioner, by the end of this NLP book, you'll have the confidence to use AWS AI services to build powerful NLP applications.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Section 1:Introduction to AWS AI NLP Services
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Section 2: Using NLP to Accelerate Business Outcomes
15
Section 3: Improving NLP Models in Production

Introducing the content monetization use case

We know NLP can help enhance the customer service experience and understand better what our customers are telling us. We will now use NLP to determine the context of our media content and stitch ads into the content relevant to that context. To illustrate our example, let's go back to our fictitious banking corporation called LiveRight Holdings Private Limited. LiveRight's management has decided they now need to expand to more geographies as they are seeing a lot of demand for their model of no-frills banking that cuts their operational costs and transfers the savings back to their customers. They have decided to hire you as their marketing technology architect, putting you in charge of all their content creation, but challenge you to devise a way for the content to pay for itself due to their low-cost policies. You come up with the idea of creating fun educational videos that show the latest trends in the intersection of banking...