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Getting Started with Google BERT

You're reading from   Getting Started with Google BERT Build and train state-of-the-art natural language processing models using BERT

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838821593
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sudharsan Ravichandiran Sudharsan Ravichandiran
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 - Starting Off with BERT
2. A Primer on Transformers FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding the BERT Model 4. Getting Hands-On with BERT 5. Section 2 - Exploring BERT Variants
6. BERT Variants I - ALBERT, RoBERTa, ELECTRA, and SpanBERT 7. BERT Variants II - Based on Knowledge Distillation 8. Section 3 - Applications of BERT
9. Exploring BERTSUM for Text Summarization 10. Applying BERT to Other Languages 11. Exploring Sentence and Domain-Specific BERT 12. Working with VideoBERT, BART, and More 13. Assessments 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

To get the most out of this book

To get the most out of the book, run all the code provided in the book using Google Colab.

Software/Hardware requirements

Operating System

Google Colab / Python 3.x

Windows/macOS/Linux

Download the example code files

You can download the example code files for this book from GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Getting-Started-with-Google-BERT. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "We will set maxlen to 100 and max_features to 100000."

A block of code is set as follows:

(x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test), preproc = \
text.texts_from_df(train_df = df,
text_column = 'reviewText',
label_columns=['sentiment'],
maxlen=100,
max_features=100000,
preprocess_mode='bert',
val_pct=0.1)

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.
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