Chapter 7. Natural Language Processing Using Deep Learning
This chapter will demonstrate how to use deep learning for natural language processing (NLP). NLP is the processing of human language text. NLP is a broad term for a number of different tasks involving text data, which include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Document classification: Classifying documents into different categories based on their subject
- Named entity recognition: Extracting key information from documents, for example, people, organizations, and locations
- Sentiment analysis: Classifying comments, tweets, or reviews as positive or negative sentiment
- Language translation: Translating text data from one language to another
- Part of speech tagging: Assigning the type to each word in a document, which is usually used in conjunction with another task
In this chapter, we will look at document classification, which is probably the most common NLP technique. This chapter follows a different structure to previous chapters, as...