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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)

About the Authors

Karthiek Reddy Bokka is a speech and audio machine learning engineer graduate from the University of Southern California and is currently working for Bi-amp Systems in Portland. His interests include deep learning, digital signal and audio processing, natural language processing, and computer vision. He has experience in designing, building, and deploying applications with artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems with varied forms of practical data, including image, speech, music, unstructured raw data, and such.

Shubhangi Hora is a Python developer, artificial intelligence enthusiast, and a writer. With a background in computer science and psychology, she is particularly interested in mental health-related AI. She is based in Pune, India, and is passionate about furthering natural language processing through machine learning and deep learning. Apart from this, she enjoys the performing arts and is a trained musician.

Tanuj Jain is a data scientist working at a Germany-based company. He has been developing deep learning models and putting them in production for commercial use at his current job. Natural language processing is a special interest area for him, whereby he has applied his know-how to classification and sentiment rating tasks. He has a Master's degree in electrical engineering with a focus on statistical pattern recognition.

Monicah Wambugu is the lead data scientist at a financial technology company that offers micro-loans by leveraging on data, machine learning, and analytics to perform alternative credit scoring. She is a graduate student at the School of Information at UC Berkeley Masters in Information Management and Systems. Monicah is particularly interested in how data science and machine learning can be used to design products and applications that respond to the behavioral and socio-economic needs of target audiences.