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Natural Language Processing with Flair

You're reading from   Natural Language Processing with Flair A practical guide to understanding and solving NLP problems with Flair

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072311
Length 200 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Understanding and Solving NLP with Flair
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Flair FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Flair Base Types 4. Chapter 3: Embeddings in Flair 5. Chapter 4: Sequence Tagging 6. Part 2: Deep Dive into Flair – Training Custom Models
7. Chapter 5: Training Sequence Labeling Models 8. Chapter 6: Hyperparameter Optimization in Flair 9. Chapter 7: Train Your Own Embeddings 10. Chapter 8: Text Classification in Flair 11. Part 3: Real-World Applications with Flair
12. Chapter 9: Deploying and Using Models in Production 13. Chapter 10: Hands-On Exercise – Building a Trading Bot with Flair 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 1: Introduction to Flair

There are few Natural Language Processing (NLP) frameworks out there as easy to learn and as easy to work with as Flair. Packed with pre-trained models, excellent documentation, and readable syntax, it provides a gentle learning curve for NLP researchers who are not necessarily skilled in coding; software engineers with poor theoretical foundations; students and graduates; as well as individuals with no prior knowledge simply interested in the topic. But before diving straight into coding, some background about the motivation behind Flair, the basic NLP concepts, and the different approaches to how you can set up your local environment may help you on your journey toward becoming a Flair NLP expert.

In Flair's official GitHub README, the framework is described as:

"A very simple framework for state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing"

This description will raise a few eyebrows. NLP researchers will immediately be interested in knowing what specific tasks the framework achieves its state-of-the-art results in. Engineers will be intrigued by the very simple label, but will wonder what steps are required to get up and running and what environments it can be used in. And those who are not knowledgeable in NLP will wonder whether they will be able to grasp the knowledge required to understand the problems Flair is trying to solve.

In this chapter, we will be answering all of these questions by covering the basic NLP concepts and terminology, providing an overview of Flair, and setting up our development environment with the help of the following sections:

  • A brief introduction to NLP
  • What is Flair?
  • Getting ready
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