A language model can predict the probability of the next word in the sequence, based on the words already observed in the sequence. Neural network models are a preferred method for developing statistical language models because they can use a distributed representation where different words with similar meanings have similar representation and because they can […]
A language model predicts the next word in the sequence based on the specific words that have come before it in the sequence. It is also possible to develop language models at the character level using neural networks. The benefit of character-based language models is their small vocabulary and flexibility in handling any words, punctuation, […]
Language modeling involves predicting the next word in a sequence given the sequence of words already present. A language model is a key element in many natural language processing models such as machine translation and speech recognition. The choice of how the language model is framed must match how the language model is intended to […]
Language modeling is central to many important natural language processing tasks. Recently, neural-network-based language models have demonstrated better performance than classical methods both standalone and as part of more challenging natural language processing tasks. In this post, you will discover language modeling for natural language processing. After reading this post, you will know: Why language […]
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? […]
A deep learning model is a mathematical abstraction of data, in which a lot of parameters are involved. Training these parameters can take hours, days, and even weeks but afterward, you can make use of the result to apply on new data. This is called inference in machine learning. It is important to know how […]
The most popular deep learning libraries in Python for research and development are TensorFlow/Keras and PyTorch, due to their simplicity. The scikit-learn library, however, is the most popular library for general machine learning in Python. In this post, you will discover how to use deep learning models from PyTorch with the scikit-learn library in Python. […]
Transformer is a recent breakthrough in neural machine translation. Natural languages are complicated. A word in one language can be translated into multiple words in another, depending on the context. But what exactly a context is, and how you can teach the computer to understand the context was a big problem to solve. The invention […]
Building Transformer Models with Attention Implementing a Neural Machine Translator from Scratch in Keras …another NLP book?This one is different! Handling text and human language is a tedious job. Not only is a lot of data cleansing needed, but multiple levels of preprocessing are also required depending on the algorithm you apply. But unarguably, the […]
We have seen how to train the Transformer model on a dataset of English and German sentence pairs and how to plot the training and validation loss curves to diagnose the model’s learning performance and decide at which epoch to run inference on the trained model. We are now ready to run inference on the […]
