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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
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Section 3: Improving NLP Models in Production

Summary

In this chapter, we saw a detailed introduction to Amazon Textract and its product features, along with a console walk-through, as well as running code samples using Textract APIs for different types of documents using both real-time and batch analysis.

We started by introducing the ready-made intelligence that Amazon Textract offers with powerful pre-trained ML models, and the ability to use its capabilities in your applications with just an API call. We also read about some popular use cases that Textract can be used for, along with references to some of the following chapters, where we will review those use cases in greater detail. We also read about Textract's benefits as compared to traditional OCR applications and rule-based document processing.

We covered various examples on how you can use Amazon Textract with different types of scanned images and forms. We reviewed different functions of Textract, such as detecting raw text, detecting form values that are...