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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

In the previous two chapters, you learned about the basics of natural language processing, its importance, the steps required to prepare text for processing, and two algorithms that aid a machine in understanding and executing tasks based on natural language. However, to cater to higher, more complicated natural language processing problems, such as creating a personal voice assistant like Siri and Alexa, additional techniques are required. Deep learning systems, such as neural networks, are often used in natural language processing, and so we're going to cover them in this chapter. In the following chapters, you learn how to use neural networks for the purpose of natural language processing.

This chapter begins with an explanation on deep learning and how it is different from machine learning. Then, it discusses neural networks, which make up a large part of deep learning techniques, and their basic functioning along with real-world applications. Additionally, it introduces...