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Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow - Second Edition

By : Thushan Ganegedara
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Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow - Second Edition

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By: Thushan Ganegedara

Overview of this book

Learning how to solve natural language processing (NLP) problems is an important skill to master due to the explosive growth of data combined with the demand for machine learning solutions in production. Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow, Second Edition, will teach you how to solve common real-world NLP problems with a variety of deep learning model architectures. The book starts by getting readers familiar with NLP and the basics of TensorFlow. Then, it gradually teaches you different facets of TensorFlow 2.x. In the following chapters, you then learn how to generate powerful word vectors, classify text, generate new text, and generate image captions, among other exciting use-cases of real-world NLP. TensorFlow has evolved to be an ecosystem that supports a machine learning workflow through ingesting and transforming data, building models, monitoring, and productionization. We will then read text directly from files and perform the required transformations through a TensorFlow data pipeline. We will also see how to use a versatile visualization tool known as TensorBoard to visualize our models. By the end of this NLP book, you will be comfortable with using TensorFlow to build deep learning models with many different architectures, and efficiently ingest data using TensorFlow Additionally, you’ll be able to confidently use TensorFlow throughout your machine learning workflow.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Implementing the language model

Here, we will discuss the details of the LSTM implementation.

First, we will discuss the hyperparameters that are used for the LSTM and their effects.

Thereafter, we will discuss the parameters (weights and biases) required to implement the LSTM. We will then discuss how these parameters are used to write the operations taking place within the LSTM. This will be followed by understanding how we will sequentially feed data to the LSTM. Next, we will discuss how to train the model. Finally, we will investigate how we can use the learned model to output predictions, which are essentially bigrams that will eventually add up to a meaningful story.

Defining the TextVectorization layer

We discussed the TextVectorization layer and used it in Chapter 6, Recurrent Neural Networks. We’ll be using the same text vectorization mechanism to tokenize text. In summary, the TextVectorization layer provides you with a convenient way to integrate...