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Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow

You're reading from   Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow Teach language to machines using Python's deep learning library

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478311
Length 472 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Thushan Ganegedara Thushan Ganegedara
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Motaz Saad Motaz Saad
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Preface 1. Introduction to Natural Language Processing FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding TensorFlow 3. Word2vec – Learning Word Embeddings 4. Advanced Word2vec 5. Sentence Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks 6. Recurrent Neural Networks 7. Long Short-Term Memory Networks 8. Applications of LSTM – Generating Text 9. Applications of LSTM – Image Caption Generation 10. Sequence-to-Sequence Learning – Neural Machine Translation 11. Current Trends and the Future of Natural Language Processing A. Mathematical Foundations and Advanced TensorFlow Index

Implementing an NMT from scratch – a German to English translator


Now we will implement an actual neural machine translator. We will be implementing the NMT using raw TensorFlow operations variables. The exercise is available in ch10/neural_machine_translation.ipynb. However, there is a sublibrary in TensorFlow, known as the seq2seq library. You can read more information about seq2seq as well as, learn to implement an NMT with seq2seq in the Appendix, Mathematical Foundations and Advanced TensorFlow.

The reason why we use raw TensorFlow is because, once you learn to implement a machine translator from scratch without using any helper functions, you will be able to quickly learn to use the seq2seq library. Furthermore, online resources are very scarce for learning to implement sequence-to-sequence models using raw TensorFlow. However, there are numerous resources/tutorials on how to use the seq2seq library for machine translation.

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TensorFlow provides very informative sequence to sequence...

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