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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)

Summary

Natural language processing enables a machine to understand the language of humans, and just as we learned how to comprehend and process language, machines are taught as well. Two ways of better understanding language that allow machines to contribute to the real world are POS tagging and named entity recognition.

The former is the process of assigning POS tags to individual words so that the machine can learn context, and the latter is recognizing and categorizing named entities to extract valuable information from corpora.

There are distinctions in the way these processes are performed: the algorithms can be supervised or unsupervised, and the approach can be rule-based or stochastic. Either way, the goal is the same, that is, to comprehend and communicate with humans in their natural language.

In the next chapter, we will be discussing neural networks, how they work, and how they can be used for natural language processing.