You cannot go straight from raw text to fitting a machine learning or deep learning model. You must clean your text first, which means splitting it into words and handling punctuation and case. In fact, there is a whole suite of text preparation methods that you may need to use, and the choice of methods […]
The encoder-decoder architecture for recurrent neural networks is proving to be powerful on a host of sequence-to-sequence prediction problems in the field of natural language processing such as machine translation and caption generation. Attention is a mechanism that addresses a limitation of the encoder-decoder architecture on long sequences, and that in general speeds up the […]
Attention is a mechanism that was developed to improve the performance of the Encoder-Decoder RNN on machine translation. In this tutorial, you will discover the attention mechanism for the Encoder-Decoder model. After completing this tutorial, you will know: About the Encoder-Decoder model and attention mechanism for machine translation. How to implement the attention mechanism step-by-step. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Natural Language Processing, or NLP, is a subfield of machine learning concerned with understanding speech and text data. Statistical methods and statistical machine learning dominate the field and more recently deep learning methods have proven very effective in challenging NLP problems like speech recognition and text translation. In this post, you will discover the Stanford […]
