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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 chapters, we studied Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and a specialized architecture called the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), which helps combat the vanishing gradient problem. LSTMs offer yet another way to tackle the vanishing gradient problem. In this chapter, we will take a look at the architecture of LSTMs and see how they enable a neural network to propagate gradients in a faithful manner.

Additionally, we will look at an interesting application of LSTMs in the form of neural language translation, which will empower us to build a model that can be used to translate text given in one language to another language.

LSTM

The vanishing gradient problem makes it difficult for the gradient to propagate from the later layers in the network to the early layers, causing the initial weights of the network to not change much from the initial values. Thus, the model doesn't learn well and leads to poor performance. LSTMs solve the issue by introducing a "memory...