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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

Understanding how Amazon Textract can help

We covered AWS AI Services briefly in Chapter 1, NLP in the Business Context and Introduction to AWS AI Services, when introducing the business context for NLP. Amazon Textract is an OCR-based service in the AWS AI Services stack that comes with ready-made intelligence, enabling you to use it without any prior ML experience for your document processing workflows. It is interesting to note that Amazon Textract has its origins in the deep learning ML models built for Amazon.com. It comes with a pre-trained model and provides APIs where you can send your documents in PDF or image format and get a response as text/tables and key/value pairs along with a confidence score.

Note

Amazon Textract currently supports PNG, JPEG, and PDF formats.

Amazon Textract provides serverless APIs without you needing to manage any kind of infrastructure, enabling you to quickly automate document management and scale to process millions of documents. Once...