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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

Chapter 2: Introducing Amazon Textract

In the previous chapter, you read how businesses can harness the benefits of applying NLP to derive insights from text, and you were briefly introduced to the AWS ML stack. We will now provide a detailed introduction to Amazon Textract, along with do-it-yourself code samples and instructions. Amazon Textract is an AWS AI service that can be used to extract text from documents and images with little to no prior ML skills. But before we get to what Textract can do, we will first cover some of the challenges with document processing. Then we will cover how Textract can help in overcoming the challenges. We will also talk about the benefits of using Amazon Textract, along with its product features. Lastly, we will cover how you can integrate Amazon Textract quickly into your applications.

We will navigate through the following sections in this chapter:

  • Setting up your AWS environment
  • Overcoming challenges with document processing
  • ...