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Hands-On Python Natural Language Processing

By : Aman Kedia, Mayank Rasu
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Book Image

Hands-On Python Natural Language Processing

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By: Aman Kedia, Mayank Rasu

Overview of this book

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the subfield in computational linguistics that enables computers to understand, process, and analyze text. This book caters to the unmet demand for hands-on training of NLP concepts and provides exposure to real-world applications along with a solid theoretical grounding. This book starts by introducing you to the field of NLP and its applications, along with the modern Python libraries that you'll use to build your NLP-powered apps. With the help of practical examples, you’ll learn how to build reasonably sophisticated NLP applications, and cover various methodologies and challenges in deploying NLP applications in the real world. You'll cover key NLP tasks such as text classification, semantic embedding, sentiment analysis, machine translation, and developing a chatbot using machine learning and deep learning techniques. The book will also help you discover how machine learning techniques play a vital role in making your linguistic apps smart. Every chapter is accompanied by examples of real-world applications to help you build impressive NLP applications of your own. By the end of this NLP book, you’ll be able to work with language data, use machine learning to identify patterns in text, and get acquainted with the advancements in NLP.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction
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Section 2: Natural Language Representation and Mathematics
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Section 3: NLP and Learning

Summary

In this chapter, we began by extending our discussion on Word2Vec, applied a similar thought process to building document-level embedding, and discussed the Doc2Vec algorithm extensively. We followed that up by building word representations using character n-grams from the words themselves, a technique referred to as fastText. The fastText model helped us capture morphological information from sub-word representations. fastText is also flexible as it can provide embeddings for out-of-vocabulary words since embeddings are a result of sub-word representations. After that, we briefly discussed Sent2Vec, which combines the C-BOW and fastText approaches to building sentence-level representations. Finally, we introduced the Universal Sentence Encoder, which can also be used for fetching sentence-level embeddings and is based on complex deep learning architectures, all of which we will read about in the upcoming chapters.

In the next chapter, we will use whatever we have discussed so...