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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

Challenges of setting up a text analytics solution

One of the challenges most organizations face is getting business insights from unstructured data.

This data can be in various formats, such as chats, PDF documents, emails, tweets, and so on. Since this data does not have a structure, it's really challenging for the traditional data analytics tool to perform analytics on it. This is where Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend can help.

Amazon Textract can make this unstructured data structured by extracting text and then Amazon Comprehend can extract insights. Once we have the data in text, you can perform serverless Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) by using Amazon Glue and convert it into a structured format. Moreover, you can use Amazon Athena to perform serverless ad hoc SQL analytics on the unstructured text you just extracted and transformed using Glue ETL. Amazon Glue can also crawl your unstructured data or text extracted from Amazon Textract in Amazon S3 and store...