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Natural Language Understanding with Python

Natural language understanding can address a wide range of problems, from managing smart homes to chatbots to creative writing. Natural Language Understanding with Python covers the full range of techniques for understanding natural language, including the new large language models. With clear explanations and examples, this book will equip you to apply NLU for various applications.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

10h52m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for python developers, computational linguists, linguists, data scientists, NLP developers, conversational AI developers, and students looking to learn about natural language understanding (NLU) and applying natural language processing (NLP) technology to real problems. Anyone interested in addressing natural language problems will find this book useful. Working knowledge in Python is a must.

Book content

chapters 10h52m total length

Natural Language Understanding, Related Technologies, and Natural Language Applications

Identifying Practical Natural Language Understanding Problems

Approaches to Natural Language Understanding – Rule-Based Systems, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Selecting Libraries and Tools for Natural Language Understanding

Natural Language Data – Finding and Preparing Data

Exploring and Visualizing Data

Selecting Approaches and Representing Data

Rule-Based Techniques

Machine Learning Part 1 - Statistical Machine Learning

Machine Learning Part 2 – Neural Networks and Deep Learning Techniques

Machine Learning Part 3 – Transformers and Large Language Models

Applying Unsupervised Learning Approaches

How Well Does It Work? – Evaluation

What to Do If the System Isn’t Working

Summary and Looking to the Future

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