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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)
1
Section 1:Introduction to AWS AI NLP Services
5
Section 2: Using NLP to Accelerate Business Outcomes
15
Section 3: Improving NLP Models in Production

Defining best practices for NLP solutions

If you have done DIY (do-it-yourself) projects in the past, you know how important your tools are for your work. When building an NLP solution, or any solution for that matter, you need to keep the following in mind:

  • You need to know your requirements (the "what").
  • You need to know the problem that you are trying to solve by building the solution (the "why").
  • You need to know the tools and techniques required to build the solution (the "how").
  • You need to estimate the time you require to build the solution (the "when").
  • Finally, you need to determine the required skills for the team (the "who").

But with this approach, you haven't necessarily addressed the needs that will make your solution reliable, scalable, efficient, secure, or cost-effective. And these are equally important (if not more so) to building long-lasting solutions that will delight your...