Advanced Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow 2

Recently, there have been tremendous advances in NLP, and we are now moving from research labs into practical applications. This book comes with a perfect blend of both the theoretical and practical aspects of trending and complex NLP techniques.
The book is focused on innovative applications in the field of NLP, language generation, and dialogue systems. It helps you apply the concepts of pre-processing text using techniques such as tokenization, parts of speech tagging, and lemmatization using popular libraries such as Stanford NLP and SpaCy. You will build Named Entity Recognition (NER) from scratch using Conditional Random Fields and Viterbi Decoding on top of RNNs.
The book covers key emerging areas such as generating text for use in sentence completion and text summarization, bridging images and text by generating captions for images, and managing dialogue aspects of chatbots. You will learn how to apply transfer learning and fine-tuning using TensorFlow 2.
Further, it covers practical techniques that can simplify the labelling of textual data. The book also has a working code that is adaptable to your use cases for each tech piece.
By the end of the book, you will have an advanced knowledge of the tools, techniques and deep learning architecture used to solve complex NLP problems.

Type

ebook

Category

Data

publication date

2021-02-04

what you will learn

Grasp important pre-steps in building NLP applications like POS tagging
Use transfer and weakly supervised learning using libraries like Snorkel
Do sentiment analysis using BERT
Apply encoder-decoder NN architectures and beam search for summarizing texts
Use Transformer models with attention to bring images and text together
Build apps that generate captions and answer questions about images using custom Transformers
Use advanced TensorFlow techniques like learning rate annealing, custom layers, and custom loss functions to build the latest DeepNLP models

no of pages

380

duration

760

key features

Apply deep learning algorithms and techniques such as BiLSTMS, CRFs, BPE and more using TensorFlow 2 * Explore applications like text generation, summarization, weakly supervised labelling and more * Read cutting edge material with seminal papers provided in the GitHub repository with full working code

approach

This book takes a practical approach to solving real-world problems in NLP by using examples to motivate learning. Different networks, architecture, and techniques are explained as solutions to be built for complex problems. There is an emphasis on code which you can adapt to your use cases to get immediate value from the book.

audience

This is not an introductory book and assumes the reader is familiar with basics of NLP and has fundamental Python skills, as well as basic knowledge of machine learning and undergraduate-level calculus and linear algebra.

The readers who can benefit the most from this book include intermediate ML developers who are familiar with the basics of supervised learning and deep learning techniques and professionals who already use TensorFlow/Python for purposes such as data science, ML, research, analysis, etc.

meta description

One-stop solution for NLP practitioners, ML developers, and data scientists to build effective NLP systems that can perform real-world complicated tasks

short description

This book provides hands-on training in NLP tools and techniques with intrinsic details. Apart from gaining expertise, you will be able to carry out novel state-of-the-art research using the skills gained.

subtitle

Build effective real-world NLP applications using NER, RNNs, seq2seq models, Transformers, and more

keywords

NLP python, NLP at work, Spacy python, Spacy NLP, Bert NLP, Data set, Natural Language Processing, NLP, TensorFlow 2, Transformers, BERT, BERT embeddings, SpaCy, Stanford NLP, NLTK and Snorkel, Conditional Random Fields, Viterbi decoding, beam search, GPT

Product ISBN

9781800200937