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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

This chapter begins with a quick recap of what natural language processing is and what services it can help provide. Then, it discusses two applications of natural language processing: Parts of Speech Tagging (POS tagging) and Named Entity Recognition. The functioning, necessity, and purposes of both of these algorithms are explained. Additionally, there are exercises and activities that perform POS tagging and named entity recognition and build and develop these algorithms.

Natural language processing consists of aiding machines to understand the natural language of humans in order to communicate with them effectively and automate a large number of tasks. The previous chapter discussed the applications of natural language processing along with examples of real-life use cases where these techniques could simplify the lives of humans. This chapter will specifically look into two of these algorithms and their real-life applications.

Every aspect of natural language processing can...