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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

General considerations for developing visualizations

Stepping back a bit from the specific techniques we have reviewed so far, we will next discuss some general considerations about visualizations. Specifically, in the next sections, we will talk about what to measure, followed by how to represent these measurements and the relationships among the measurements. Because the most common visualizations are based on representing information in the XY plane in two dimensions, we will mainly focus on visualizations in this format, starting with selecting among measurements.

Selecting among measurements

Nearly all NLP begins with measuring some property or properties of texts we are analyzing. The goal of this section is to help you understand the different kinds of text measurements that are available in NLP projects.

So far, we’ve primarily focused on measurements involving words. Words are a natural property to measure because they are easy to count accurately –...