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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

Chapter 4: Automating Document Processing Workflows

In the previous chapter, we were introduced to Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Comprehend Medical, and we covered how to use these services to derive insights from text. We also spent some time understanding how Natural Language Processing algorithms work, the different types of insights you can uncover, and we also ran code samples trying out the Amazon Comprehend APIs.

In this chapter, we will walk through our first real-world use case of automating a document management workflow that many organizations struggle with today. We put together this solution based on our collective experience and the usage trends we have observed in our careers. Fasten your seat belts and get ready to experience architecting an end-to-end AI solution one building block at a time and watch it taking shape in front of you. We expect to be hands-on throughout the course of this chapter, but we have all the code samples we need to get going.

We will...