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Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x

You're reading from   Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x Harness the potential of machine learning, through spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785283451
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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NLP - a brief primer

Just like artificial neural networks, NLP is a relatively "old" subject, but one that has garnered a massive amount of attention recently due to the rise of computing power and various applications of machine learning algorithms for tasks that include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Machine translation (MT): In its simplest form, this is the ability of machines to translate one language of words to another language of words. Interestingly, proposals for machine translation systems pre-date the creation of the digital computer. One of the first NLP applications was created during World War II by an American scientist named Warren Weaver whose job was to try and crack German code. Nowadays, we have highly sophisticated applications that can translate a piece of text into any number of different languages we desire!
  • Speech recognition (SR)...
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