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Transformers for Natural Language Processing - Second Edition

By : Denis Rothman
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Book Image

Transformers for Natural Language Processing - Second Edition

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By: Denis Rothman

Overview of this book

Transformers are...well...transforming the world of AI. There are many platforms and models out there, but which ones best suit your needs? Transformers for Natural Language Processing, 2nd Edition, guides you through the world of transformers, highlighting the strengths of different models and platforms, while teaching you the problem-solving skills you need to tackle model weaknesses. You'll use Hugging Face to pretrain a RoBERTa model from scratch, from building the dataset to defining the data collator to training the model. If you're looking to fine-tune a pretrained model, including GPT-3, then Transformers for Natural Language Processing, 2nd Edition, shows you how with step-by-step guides. The book investigates machine translations, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, question-answering, and many more NLP tasks. It provides techniques to solve hard language problems and may even help with fake news anxiety (read chapter 13 for more details). You'll see how cutting-edge platforms, such as OpenAI, have taken transformers beyond language into computer vision tasks and code creation using DALL-E 2, ChatGPT, and GPT-4. By the end of this book, you'll know how transformers work and how to implement them and resolve issues like an AI detective.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index
Appendix I — Terminology of Transformer Models

Analyzing Fake News with Transformers

We were all born thinking that the Earth was flat. As babies, we crawled on flat surfaces. As kindergarten children, we played on flat playgrounds. In elementary school, we sat in flat classrooms. Then, our parents and teachers told us that the Earth was round and that the people on the other side of it were upside down. It took us quite a while to understand why they did not fall off the Earth. Even today, when we see a beautiful sunset, we still see the “sun set,” and not the Earth rotating away from the sun!

It takes time and effort to figure out what is fake news and what isn’t. Like children, we have to work our way through something we perceive as fake news.

This chapter will tackle some of the topics that create tensions. We will check the facts on topics such as climate change, gun control, and Donald Trump’s Tweets. We will analyze Tweets, Facebook posts, and other sources of information.

Our goal...