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Natural Language Understanding with Python

By : Deborah A. Dahl
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Book Image

Natural Language Understanding with Python

5 (1)
By: Deborah A. Dahl

Overview of this book

Natural Language Understanding facilitates the organization and structuring of language allowing computer systems to effectively process textual information for various practical applications. Natural Language Understanding with Python will help you explore practical techniques for harnessing NLU to create diverse applications. with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll begin by learning about NLU and its applications. You’ll then explore a wide range of current NLU techniques and their most appropriate use-case. In the process, you’ll be introduced to the most useful Python NLU libraries. Not only will you learn the basics of NLU, you’ll also discover practical issues such as acquiring data, evaluating systems, and deploying NLU applications along with their solutions. The book is a comprehensive guide that’ll help you explore techniques and resources that can be used for different applications in the future. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with the concepts of natural language understanding, deep learning, and large language models (LLMs) for building various AI-based applications.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: Getting Started with Natural Language Understanding Technology
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Part 2:Developing and Testing Natural Language Understanding Systems
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Part 3: Systems in Action – Applying Natural Language Understanding at Scale

Exploring and Visualizing Data

Exploring and visualizing data are essential steps in the process of developing a natural language understanding (NLU) application. In this chapter, we will explore techniques for data exploration, such as visualizing word frequencies, and techniques for visualizing document similarity. We will also introduce several important visualization tools, such as Matplotlib, Seaborn, and WordCloud, that enable us to graphically represent data and identify patterns and relationships within our datasets. By combining these techniques, we can gain valuable perspectives into our data, make informed decisions about the next steps in our NLU processing, and ultimately, improve the accuracy and effectiveness of our analyses. Whether you’re a data scientist or a developer, data exploration and visualization are essential skills for extracting actionable insights from text data in preparation for further NLU processing.

In this chapter, we will cover several...