Chapter 1: NLP in the Business Context and Introduction to AWS AI Services
Natural language processing, or NLP, is quite popular in the scientific community, but the value of using this Artificial Intelligence (AI) technique to gain business benefits is not immediately obvious to mainstream users. Our focus will be to raise awareness and educate you on the business context of NLP, provide examples of the proliferation of data in unstructured text, and show how NLP can help derive meaningful insights to inform strategic decisions within an enterprise.
In this introductory chapter, we will be establishing the basic context to familiarize you with some of the underlying concepts of AI and Machine Learning (ML), the types of challenges that NLP can help solve, common pitfalls when building NLP solutions, and how NLP works and what it's really good at doing, with examples.
In this chapter, we will cover the following:
- Introducing NLP
- Overcoming the challenges in building NLP solutions
- Understanding why NLP is becoming mainstream
- Introducing the AWS ML stack
