Word embeddings are a modern approach for representing text in natural language processing. Word embedding algorithms like word2vec and GloVe are key to the state-of-the-art results achieved by neural network models on natural language processing problems like machine translation. In this tutorial, you will discover how to train and load word embedding models for natural […]
Word embeddings provide a dense representation of words and their relative meanings. They are an improvement over sparse representations used in simpler bag of word model representations. Word embeddings can be learned from text data and reused among projects. They can also be learned as part of fitting a neural network on text data. In this […]
You cannot feed raw text directly into deep learning models. Text data must be encoded as numbers to be used as input or output for machine learning and deep learning models. The Keras deep learning library provides some basic tools to help you prepare your text data. In this tutorial, you will discover how you […]
Text data requires special preparation before you can start using it for predictive modeling. The text must be parsed to remove words, called tokenization. Then the words need to be encoded as integers or floating point values for use as input to a machine learning algorithm, called feature extraction (or vectorization). The scikit-learn library offers […]
You need datasets to practice on when getting started with deep learning for natural language processing tasks. It is better to use small datasets that you can download quickly and do not take too long to fit models. Further, it is also helpful to use standard datasets that are well understood and widely used so […]
The promise of deep learning in the field of natural language processing is the better performance by models that may require more data but less linguistic expertise to train and operate. There is a lot of hype and large claims around deep learning methods, but beyond the hype, deep learning methods are achieving state-of-the-art results on […]
Natural Language Processing, or NLP for short, is broadly defined as the automatic manipulation of natural language, like speech and text, by software. The study of natural language processing has been around for more than 50 years and grew out of the field of linguistics with the rise of computers. In this post, you will […]
The field of natural language processing is shifting from statistical methods to neural network methods. There are still many challenging problems to solve in natural language. Nevertheless, deep learning methods are achieving state-of-the-art results on some specific language problems. It is not just the performance of deep learning models on benchmark problems that is most […]
Transduction or transductive learning are terms you may come across in applied machine learning. The term is being used with some applications of recurrent neural networks on sequence prediction problems, like some problems in the domain of natural language processing. In this post, you will discover what transduction is in machine learning. After reading this […]
Deep learning is having a large impact on the field of natural language processing. But, as a beginner, where do you start? Both deep learning and natural language processing are huge fields. What are the salient aspects of each field to focus on and which areas of NLP is deep learning having the most impact? […]
