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Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

By : Karthiek Reddy Bokka, Shubhangi Hora, Tanuj Jain, Monicah Wambugu
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Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

By: Karthiek Reddy Bokka, Shubhangi Hora, Tanuj Jain, Monicah Wambugu

Overview of this book

Applying deep learning approaches to various NLP tasks can take your computational algorithms to a completely new level in terms of speed and accuracy. Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing starts by highlighting the basic building blocks of the natural language processing domain. The book goes on to introduce the problems that you can solve using state-of-the-art neural network models. After this, delving into the various neural network architectures and their specific areas of application will help you to understand how to select the best model to suit your needs. As you advance through this deep learning book, you’ll study convolutional, recurrent, and recursive neural networks, in addition to covering long short-term memory networks (LSTM). Understanding these networks will help you to implement their models using Keras. In later chapters, you will be able to develop a trigger word detection application using NLP techniques such as attention model and beam search. By the end of this book, you will not only have sound knowledge of natural language processing, but also be able to select the best text preprocessing and neural network models to solve a number of NLP issues.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Understanding the Architecture of a CNN

Let's assume we have the task of classifying each of the MNIST images as a number between 0 and 9. The input in the previous example is an image matrix. For a colored image, each pixel is an array with three values corresponding to the RGB color scheme. For grayscale images, each pixel is just one number, as we saw earlier.

To understand the architecture of a CNN, it is best to separate it into two sections as visualized in the image that follows.

A forward pass of the CNN involves a set of operations in the two sections.

Figure 4.4: Application of convolution and ReLU operations
Figure 4.4: Application of convolution and ReLU operations

The figure is explained in the following sections:

  • Feature extraction
  • Neural network

Feature Extraction

The first section of a CNN is all about feature extraction. Conceptually, it can be interpreted as the model's attempt to learn which features distinguish one class from another. In the task of classifying images, these features might...