Last Updated on August 7, 2019 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 discover what natural language processing is and why it is so important. After reading this post, you will know: […]

Last Updated on August 7, 2019 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 challenging problems. Notably in natural language processing. In this post, you will discover the specific promises that deep learning […]

Last Updated on August 14, 2020 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 that you can compare your results to see if you are making progress. In this post, you will discover […]

Last Updated on June 28, 2020 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 easy-to-use tools to perform both tokenization and feature extraction of your text data. In this tutorial, you will discover […]

Last Updated on August 7, 2019 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 can use Keras to prepare your text data. After completing this tutorial, you will know: About the convenience methods […]

Last Updated on September 3, 2020 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 tutorial, you will discover how to use word embeddings for deep learning in Python with Keras. After completing this […]

Last Updated on September 3, 2020 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 language processing applications in Python using Gensim. After completing this tutorial, you will know: How to train your own […]

Last Updated on August 7, 2019 The bag-of-words model is a way of representing text data when modeling text with machine learning algorithms. The bag-of-words model is simple to understand and implement and has seen great success in problems such as language modeling and document classification. In this tutorial, you will discover the bag-of-words model for feature extraction in natural language processing. After completing this tutorial, you will know: What the bag-of-words model is and why it is needed to […]

Last Updated on August 7, 2019 Word embeddings are a type of word representation that allows words with similar meaning to have a similar representation. They are a distributed representation for text that is perhaps one of the key breakthroughs for the impressive performance of deep learning methods on challenging natural language processing problems. In this post, you will discover the word embedding approach for representing text data. After completing this post, you will know: What the word embedding approach […]

Last Updated on August 7, 2019 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. Applications and extensions to the attention mechanism. Kick-start your project with my new book Deep Learning for Natural Language […]