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Natural Language Understanding with Python

You're reading from   Natural Language Understanding with Python Combine natural language technology, deep learning, and large language models to create human-like language comprehension in computer systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804613429
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Deborah A. Dahl Deborah A. Dahl
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with Natural Language Understanding Technology
2. Chapter 1: Natural Language Understanding, Related Technologies, and Natural Language Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Identifying Practical Natural Language Understanding Problems 4. Part 2:Developing and Testing Natural Language Understanding Systems
5. Chapter 3: Approaches to Natural Language Understanding – Rule-Based Systems, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning 6. Chapter 4: Selecting Libraries and Tools for Natural Language Understanding 7. Chapter 5: Natural Language Data – Finding and Preparing Data 8. Chapter 6: Exploring and Visualizing Data 9. Chapter 7: Selecting Approaches and Representing Data 10. Chapter 8: Rule-Based Techniques 11. Chapter 9: Machine Learning Part 1 – Statistical Machine Learning 12. Chapter 10: Machine Learning Part 2 – Neural Networks and Deep Learning Techniques 13. Chapter 11: Machine Learning Part 3 – Transformers and Large Language Models 14. Chapter 12: Applying Unsupervised Learning Approaches 15. Chapter 13: How Well Does It Work? – Evaluation 16. Part 3: Systems in Action – Applying Natural Language Understanding at Scale
17. Chapter 14: What to Do If the System Isn’t Working 18. Chapter 15: Summary and Looking to the Future 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the major development tools and Python libraries that are used in NLP application development. We discussed the JupyterLab development environment and the GitHub software repository system. The major libraries that we covered were NLTK, spaCy, and Keras. Although this is by no means an exhaustive list of NLP libraries, it’s sufficient to get a start on almost any NLP project.

We covered installation and basic usage for the major libraries, and we provided some suggested tips on selecting libraries. We summarized some useful auxiliary packages, and we concluded with a simple example of how the libraries can be used to do some NLP tasks.

The topics discussed in this chapter have given you a basic understanding of the most useful Python packages for NLP, which you will be using for the rest of the book. In addition, the discussion in this chapter has given you a start on understanding the principles for selecting tools for future projects...

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