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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 3: Introducing Amazon Comprehend

In the previous chapter, we covered how you can use Amazon Textract for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and deep dive into its features and specific API implementations. In this chapter, you will get a detailed introduction to Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Comprehend Medical, what their functions are, what business challenges they were created to solve, what features they have, what types of user requirements they can be applied to, and how easy it is to integrate Comprehend with different AWS services, such as AWS Lambda, to build business applications.

In this chapter, we will go through the following sections:

  • Understanding Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Comprehend Medical
  • Exploring Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Comprehend Medical product features
  • Using Amazon Comprehend with your applications