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Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

By : Karthiek Reddy Bokka, Shubhangi Hora, Tanuj Jain, Monicah Wambugu
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Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

By: Karthiek Reddy Bokka, Shubhangi Hora, Tanuj Jain, Monicah Wambugu

Overview of this book

Applying deep learning approaches to various NLP tasks can take your computational algorithms to a completely new level in terms of speed and accuracy. Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing starts by highlighting the basic building blocks of the natural language processing domain. The book goes on to introduce the problems that you can solve using state-of-the-art neural network models. After this, delving into the various neural network architectures and their specific areas of application will help you to understand how to select the best model to suit your needs. As you advance through this deep learning book, you’ll study convolutional, recurrent, and recursive neural networks, in addition to covering long short-term memory networks (LSTM). Understanding these networks will help you to implement their models using Keras. In later chapters, you will be able to develop a trigger word detection application using NLP techniques such as attention model and beam search. By the end of this book, you will not only have sound knowledge of natural language processing, but also be able to select the best text preprocessing and neural network models to solve a number of NLP issues.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Describe natural language processing and its applications
  • Explain different text preprocessing techniques
  • Perform text preprocessing on text corpora
  • Explain the functioning of Word2Vec and GloVe word embeddings
  • Generate word embeddings using Word2Vec and GloVe
  • Use the NLTK, Gensim, and Glove-Python libraries for text preprocessing and generating word embeddings

This chapter aims to equip you with knowledge of the basics of natural language processing and experience with the various text preprocessing techniques used in Deep Learning.